Accounting for Slavery : : Masters and Management / / Caitlin Rosenthal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Rosenthal, Caitlin,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674988590; 9783110606621
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674988590
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Caitlin Rosenthal.

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.