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Accounting for Slavery : Masters and Management / Caitlin Rosenthal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674988590
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.11734097309033
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Hierarchies of Life and Death -- 2. Forms of Labor -- 3. Slavery’s Scientific Management -- 4. Human Capital -- 5. Managing Freedom -- Conclusion: Histories of Business and Slavery -- Postscript: Forward to Scientific Management -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Caitlin Rosenthal explores quantitative management practices on West Indian and Southern plantations, showing how planter-capitalists built sophisticated organizations and used complex accounting tools. By demonstrating that business innovation can be a byproduct of bondage Rosenthal further erodes the false boundary between capitalism and slavery.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Hierarchies of Life and Death -- 2. Forms of Labor -- 3. Slavery’s Scientific Management -- 4. Human Capital -- 5. Managing Freedom -- Conclusion: Histories of Business and Slavery -- Postscript: Forward to Scientific Management -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Caitlin Rosenthal explores quantitative management practices on West Indian and Southern plantations, showing how planter-capitalists built sophisticated organizations and used complex accounting tools. By demonstrating that business innovation can be a byproduct of bondage Rosenthal further erodes the false boundary between capitalism and slavery.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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