Accounting for slavery : masters and management / Caitlin Rosenthal

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenthal, Caitlin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Economic aspects--United States--History--18th century.

Slavery.

Slavery--Economic aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Slavery--Economic aspects--West Indies, British--History--18th century.

Slavery--Economic aspects--West Indies, British--History--19th century.

Human capital--United States--History.

Human capital.

Human capital--West Indies, British--History.

Plantations--United States--Accounting--History.

Plantations.

Plantations--West Indies, British--Accounting--History.

Plantation owners--United States--History.

Plantation owners.

Plantation owners--West Indies, British--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv ,295 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

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:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Feb 2019)

ISBN:

9780674988576

0674988574

9780674988590

0674988590

OCLC:

1044734042