Accounting for Slavery Masters and Management 1st Edition by Caitlin Rosenthal ISBN 0674972090 978-0674972094

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ISBN 10: 0674972090 

ISBN 13: 978-0674972094

Author: Caitlin Rosenthal

 “Slavery in the United States was a business. A morally reprehensible―and very profitable business…Rosenthal argues that slaveholders in the American South and Caribbean were using advanced management and accounting techniques long before their northern counterparts. Techniques that are still used by businesses today.”
―Marketplace

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Accounting for Slavery is a unique contribution to the decades-long effort to understand New World slavery’s complex relationship with capitalism. Through careful analysis of plantation records, Caitlin Rosenthal explores the development of quantitative management practices on West Indian and Southern plantations. She shows how planter-capitalists built sophisticated organizational structures and even practiced an early form of scientific management. They subjected enslaved people to experiments, such as allocating and reallocating labor from crop to crop, planning meals and lodging, and carefully recording daily productivity. The incentive strategies they crafted offered rewards but also threatened brutal punishment.

The traditional story of modern management focuses on the factories of England and New England, but Rosenthal demonstrates that investors in West Indian and Southern plantations used complex accounting practices, sometimes before their Northern counterparts. For example, some planters depreciated their human capital decades before the practice was a widely used accounting technique. Contrary to narratives that depict slavery as a barrier to innovation, Accounting for Slavery explains how elite planters turned their power over enslaved people into a productivity advantage. The brutality of slavery was readily compatible with the development of new quantitative techniques for workforce organization.

By showing the many ways that business innovation can be a byproduct of bondage, Rosenthal further erodes the false boundary between capitalism and slavery and illuminates deep parallels between the outlooks of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century slaveholders and the ethical dilemmas facing twenty-first-century businesses.

Table of contents:

• List of Figures and Tables

• Preface

• Introduction

Part 1: Foundations of Labor and Hierarchies

1. Hierarchies of Life and Death

2. Forms of Labor

Part 2: The Economics of Slavery and Management

3. Slavery’s Scientific Management

4. Human Capital

5. Managing Freedom

Part 3: Business, Slavery, and Historical Perspectives

• Conclusion: Histories of Business and Slavery

• Postscript: Forward to Scientific Management

Supplementary Sections

• Notes

• Acknowledgments

• Index

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Table of Contents

• List of Figures and Tables

• Preface

• Introduction

Part 1: Foundations of Labor and Hierarchies

1. Hierarchies of Life and Death

2. Forms of Labor

Part 2: The Economics of Slavery and Management

3. Slavery’s Scientific Management

4. Human Capital

5. Managing Freedom

Part 3: Business, Slavery, and Historical Perspectives

6. Conclusion: Histories of Business and Slavery

7. Postscript: Forward to Scientific Management

Supplementary Sections

• Notes

• Acknowledgments

• Index

 

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