Production of Difference Race and the Management of Labor in U. S. History

Name: Production of Difference Race and the Management of Labor in U. S. History
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ISBN: 9780199376483

ISBN-10: 0199376484

ISBN-13: 9780199376483

Edition: 2014

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In 1907, pioneering labor historian and economist John Commons argued that U.S. management had shown just one "symptom of originality," namely "playing one race against the other."In this eye-opening book, David Roediger and Elizabeth Esch offer a radically new way of understanding the history of management in the United States, placing race, migration, and empire at the center of what has sometimes been narrowly seen as a search for efficiency and economy. Ranging from the antebellum period to the coming of the Great Depression, the book examines the extensive literature slave masters produced on how to manage and "develop" slaves; explores what was perhaps the greatest managerial feat in…

Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/10/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.21" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English