عنوان
پدید آورنده
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رده
HT905 .R67 2018
HT905
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R67
2018
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0674972090
(Number (ISBN
9780674972094
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Accounting for slavery :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
masters and management /
First Statement of Responsibility
Caitlin Rosenthal.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Harvard University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2018.
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
©2018
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiv, 295 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.--
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Human capital-- United States-- History.
Human capital-- West Indies, British-- History.
Plantation owners-- United States-- History.
Plantation owners-- West Indies, British-- History.
Plantations-- United States-- Accounting-- History.
Plantations-- West Indies, British-- Accounting-- History.
Slavery-- Economic aspects-- United States-- History-- 18th century.
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.
15.85 history of America.
British colonies.
Human capital.
Plantagenbesitzer
Plantagenwirtschaft
Plantation owners.
Plantations-- Accounting.
Sklaverei
Slavery-- Economic aspects.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Great Britain, Colonies, West Indies, History.
Caribbean region.
United States.
United States.
USA
West Indies, British West Indies.
West Indies.
Westindien
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
331
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11/734097309033
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
HT905
Book number
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R67
2018
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Rosenthal, Caitlin
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20200822122039.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
rda
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
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