Accounting for slavery : masters and management /

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 comple...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Rosenthal, Caitlin (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Sujets:
1700-1899
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.
Human capital > United States > History.
Human capital > West Indies, British > History.
Plantations > United States > Accounting > History.
Plantations > West Indies, British > Accounting > History.
Plantation owners > United States > History.
Plantation owners > West Indies, British > History.
Plantations > États-Unis > Comptabilité > Histoire.
Plantations > Antilles britanniques > Comptabilité > Histoire.
Propriétaires de plantations > Antilles britanniques > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Human capital.
Plantation owners.
Plantations > Accounting.
Slavery > Economic aspects.
United States.
West Indies > British West Indies.
History.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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