The production of difference : race and the management of labor in U.S. history /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Roediger, David R.
Other Authors: Esch, Elizabeth D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Discrimination in employment > United States > History.
Labor > United States > History.
Race discrimination > United States > History.
Travail > États-Unis > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Human Resources & Personnel Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Workplace Culture.
Discrimination in employment.
Labor.
Race discrimination.
Race relations.
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: race in the history of U.S. management
  • Facing South
  • The Antebellum South and the origins of race management : African slavery, Indian removal, and Irish labor
  • Managing the Negro : the African slave as asset and animal
  • Facing West
  • Frontiers of control : infrastructure, western expansion, and race management
  • Crossing borders: racial knowledge and the transnational triumphs of U.S. management
  • Changing the whole story
  • Continuity and change: scientific management, race management, and the persistence of the "foremen's empire"
  • The crisis of race management: immigrant rebellions, immigration restrictions, and a new focus on Black and Mexican labor
  • Afterword: then and now
  • Notes
  • Index.

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