This paper reports an intensive case study of PC - a soap manufacturing company located and established in what was then East Pakistan. PC was nationalised following the granting of Bangladesh's independence in 1971 and privatised in 1993. The study is informed by Burawoy's contributions to labour process theory, especially how the consent of labour is manufactured through internal states, internal labour markets and games, and how regimes of control in less developed ex-colonial countries are transformed by state and production politics.
The report traces how the role of accounting systems may shape and be shaped by these processes. It concludes, on the evidence of this company, that the changes in political and economic regimes in the region resulted ultimately in the abandonment of production politics and a rise in crony capitalism.
