Accounting for Slavery
Masters and Management
Caitlin Rosenthal
Learn how Southern planter-capitalists used early forms of scientific management to turn their power over enslaved people into a productivity advantage. Accounting for Slavery challenges the traditional depiction of slavery as a barrier to innovation, revealing how elite planters employed meticulous note-taking and experiments to improve daily profits and productivity. By analyzing old accounting books from Southern and West Indian plantations, the author provides a groundbreaking investigation of business practices in relation to slavery and capitalism.
Publish Date
2018-08-27T00:00:00.000Z
2018-08-27T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
4.25
ISBN
9780674241657
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Recommendations
2
Recommendations
2021-04-01T04:28:04.000Z
@nilofer @watermelondriia Yep I really like this book. It resonates well with students and lay readers. You can tell she wants to be measured and even with her restraint the empirical story is so overwhelmingly resolute that it’s poignant – source2019-12-17T02:29:11.000Z
@CarolynVan Funny story, Accounting for Slavery & Scorpio are the ones that kicked the whole thing off. That book is ... just very Scorpio in the best way. – source