Accounting for slavery, masters and management, Caitlin Rosenthal
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Label
Accounting for slavery, masters and management, Caitlin Rosenthal
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Accounting for slavery
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1019844344
Responsibility statement
Caitlin Rosenthal
Sub title
masters and management
Summary
Accounting for Slavery offers a history of business and management practices on slave plantations in the British West Indies and the American South, covering the century from approximately 1780-1880. Far from lagging behind Northern manufacturers, the most sophisticated Southern planters used complex management techniques, measuring and monitoring their human capital with precision. More broadly, the book explores the complex relationship between slavery and capitalism in American history. The traditional story of modern management focuses on the factories of England and New England, largely ignoring plantation economies. Drawing on extensive archival research into plantation accounting practices, the author argues that the harsh realities of slavery were compatible with a highly quantitative, calculating style of management. Planters allocated and reallocated slaves' labor from task to task, precisely monitored their productivity, and depreciated their "human capital" decades before depreciation became a common accounting technique.--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Hierarchies of life and death -- Forms of labor -- Slavery's scientific management -- Human capital -- Managing freedom -- Conclusion: Histories of business and slavery -- Epilogue: Forward to scientific management
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Creator
Subject
- Human capital -- West Indies, British -- History
- Slavery + Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- 1700-1899
- Plantations -- United States -- Accounting -- History
- Plantation owners -- West Indies, British -- History
- Slavery + Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery + Economic aspects -- West Indies, British -- History -- 19th century
- Plantations -- West Indies, British -- Accounting -- History
- Human capital -- United States -- History
- Slavery + Economic aspects -- West Indies, British -- History -- 18th century
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- West Indies -- History
- Plantation owners -- United States -- History
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- Subject12
- Human capital -- West Indies, British -- History
- Slavery + Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- 1700-1899
- Plantations -- United States -- Accounting -- History
- Plantation owners -- West Indies, British -- History
- Slavery + Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery + Economic aspects -- West Indies, British -- History -- 19th century
- Plantations -- West Indies, British -- Accounting -- History
- Human capital -- United States -- History
- Slavery + Economic aspects -- West Indies, British -- History -- 18th century
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- West Indies -- History
- Plantation owners -- United States -- History
- Content1
- Author1
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