Accounting for Slavery : : Masters and Management / / 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Table of 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