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The production of difference : race and the management of labor in the U.S. history / David R. Roediger, Elizabeth D. Esch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roediger, David R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination in employment--United States--History.
- Discrimination in employment.
- Labor--United States--History.
- Labor.
- Race discrimination--United States--History.
- Race discrimination.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 pro
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: race in the history of U.S. management
- Facing South
- The Antebellum South and the origins of race management : African slavery, Indian removal, and Irish labor
- Managing the Negro : the African slave as asset and animal
- Facing West
- Frontiers of control : infrastructure, western expansion, and race management
- Crossing borders : racial knowledge and the transnational triumphs of U.S. management
- Changing the whole story
- Continuity and change : scientific management, race management, and the persistence of the "foremen's empire"
- The crisis of race management : immigrant rebellions, immigration restrictions, and a new focus on Black and Mexican labor
- Afterword: then and now
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-59578-7
- 9786613625618
- 0-19-993080-5
- OCLC:
- 793996693
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