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Labour and international accounting standards: A question of social justice
Author(s) -
JUBÉ Samuel
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international labour review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1564-913X
pISSN - 0020-7780
DOI - 10.1111/ilr.12165
Subject(s) - restructuring , accounting , work (physics) , value (mathematics) , economics , inequality , national accounts , international financial reporting standards , relation (database) , economic justice , guardian , microeconomics , finance , engineering , macroeconomics , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , mathematics , database , machine learning , computer science
As the international guardian of social justice, the ILO is witnessing a global revolution in accounting, which has culminated in international accounting standards (IAS‐IFRS). Previously, accounting measured the economy in relation to the capacities and responsibilities of workers and their employers. Today, the exact opposite is the case: the IAS‐IFRS no longer measure work and enterprises, referring instead to the abstract concept of a cybernetic entity capable of constant restructuring, at the cost of unprecedented inequality. The author points to the incoherence of this system and to the need to restore the full carrying value of labour.