Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management 1st Edition

Book Name: Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management 1st Edition
Author: Caitlin Rosenthal
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN-: 0674972090,9780674972094
Year: 2018
Pages: 312
Language: English
File size: 31 Mb
File format: PDF

Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management 1st Edition Pdf Book Description:

Accounting for Slaveryis a exceptional contribution to the decades-long attempt to comprehend New World slavery’s complicated relationship with self love. Through careful evaluation of farm documents, Caitlin Rosenthal investigates the growth of quantitative management practices on West Indian and Southern plantations. She reveals how planter-capitalists assembled complex organizational arrangements and even practiced an early form of scientific direction. They exposed enslaved individuals to experiments, like allocating and reallocating labour from harvest to harvest, planning meals and accommodation, and carefully documenting daily productivity. The incentive plans they crafted provided rewards but also jeopardized barbarous punishment.

By way of instance, some planters depreciated their individual capital decades prior to the clinic was a popular accounting technique. Unlike narratives that portray slavery as a barrier to innovation,Accounting for Slaveryclarifies how elite planters flipped their power enslaved people to a productivity benefit. The brutality of slavery was easily compatible with the evolution of new quantitative methods for labour business.

By demonstrating the many ways that business invention could be a byproduct of bondage, Rosenthal further erodes the fictitious border between capitalism and captivity and illuminates profound contrasts between the outlooks of eighteenth- and – nineteenth-century slaveholders as well as the ethical issues facing twenty-first-century companies.