Production of Difference
Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History
1st Edition
Published on 4. May 2012
297 pages
978-0-19-993080-7 (ISBN)
Description
Centering on race and empire, this book revolutionizes the history of management. From slave management to U.S. managers functioning as transnational experts on managing diversity, it shows how ",modern management", was made at the margins. Even in ",scientific", management, playing races against each other remained a hallmark of managerial strategy.
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Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History
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The Production of Difference
Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History
Book
05/2012
1st Edition
Oxford University Press Inc
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Race in the History of U.S. Management
- PART I: FACING SOUTH
- 1. The Antebellum South and the Origins of Race Management: African Slavery, Indian Removal, and Irish Labor
- 2. Managing the Negro: The African Slave as Asset and Animal
- PART II: FACING WEST
- 3. Frontiers of Control: Infrastructure, Western Expansion, and Race Management
- 4. Crossing Borders: Racial Knowledge and the Transnational Triumphs of U.S. Management
- PART III: CHANGING THE WHOLE STORY
- 5. Continuity and Change: Scientific Management, Race Management, and the Persistence of the "Foreman's Empire"
- 6. The Crisis of Race Management: Immigrant Rebellions, Immigration Restrictions, and a New Focus on Black and Mexican Labor
- Afterword: Then and Now
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
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- L
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