Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Rosenthal (English) Pa

Description: Accounting for Slavery by Caitlin Rosenthal A Five Books Best Economics Book of the YearA Politico Great Weekend Read"Absolutely compelling."-Diane Coyle"The evolution of modern management is usually associated with good old-fashioned intelligence and ingenuity But capitalism is not just about the free market; it was also built on the backs of slaves."-ForbesThe story of modern management generally looks to the factories of England and New England for its genesis. But after scouring through old accounting books, Caitlin Rosenthal discovered that Southern planter-capitalists practiced an early form of scientific management. They took meticulous notes, carefully recording daily profits and productivity, and subjected their slaves to experiments and incentive strategies comprised of rewards and brutal punishment. Challenging the traditional depiction of slavery as a barrier to innovation, Accounting for Slavery shows how elite planters turned their power over enslaved people into a productivity advantage. The result is a groundbreaking investigation of business practices in Southern and West Indian plantations and an essential contribution to our understanding of slaverys relationship with capitalism."Slavery in the United States was a business. A morally reprehensible-and very profitable business Rosenthal argues that slaveholders were using advanced management and accounting techniques long before their northern counterparts. Techniques that are still used by businesses today."-Marketplace (American Public Media)"Rosenthal pored over hundreds of account books from U.S. and West Indian plantations She found that their owners employed advanced accounting and management tools, including depreciation and standardized efficiency metrics."-Harvard Business Review FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Caitlin Rosenthal returned to Harvard for her Ph.D. in history after three years with McKinsey & Company. A finalist for the Nevins Prize in Economic History and winner of the Krooss Prize for the Best Dissertation in Business History at Harvard University, she was a Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School and is now Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Review Examine[s] how slavery laid the foundation of American capitalism, including the invention of financial instruments, such as bonds that used enslaved people as collateral. -- Parul Sehgal * New York Times *Slavery in the United States was a business. A morally reprehensible—and very profitable business. Much of the research around the business history of slavery focuses on the horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the business interests that fueled it. The common narrative is that todays modern management techniques were developed in the factories in England and the industrialized North of the United States, not the plantations of the Caribbean and the American South. According to a new book by historian Caitlin Rosenthal, that narrative is wrong… Rosenthal argues that slaveholders in the American South and Caribbean were using advanced management and accounting techniques long before their northern counterparts. Techniques that are still used by businesses today. * Marketplace *Absolutely compelling. -- Diane Coyle * Five Books *[This] history of the accounting and management of slave plantations in the Americas goes a long way towards puncturing common-sense narratives of free market economics. -- Martin Myers * Times Higher Education *Valuable…Rosenthal proves that precise calculation of labor productivity took root in the slave economy. The irony is that it was more aggressively calculated there than among many Northern manufacturers of the time. -- Jeremy Ray Jewell * Arts Fuse *Looks at how sugar and cotton plantations organised and tracked production. It is a fascinating yet horrifying history of how planters saw the slaves they profited from—and how they drove up production…Challenges many dominant ideas about capitalism, class and progress. -- Sadie Robinson * Socialist Worker *Full of insights into the history of Atlantic slavery, Accounting for Slavery will force its readers to look with fresh eyes at the many freedoms and unfreedoms of the modern American workplace. This is an original book, which uniquely draws from and speaks to many disciplines, while written compellingly for a wide audience. -- Jonathan Levy, University of ChicagoBy paying close attention to slaveholders methods of keeping accounts, Caitlin Rosenthal shows how and why they tried to reduce human beings to marks on a ledger. Anyone concerned with the sometimes dark history of management, data, and modern accounting practices needs to read this brilliant, carefully argued book. -- W. Caleb McDaniel, Rice University Review Quote Valuable...Rosenthal proves that precise calculation of labor productivity took root in the slave economy. The irony is that it was more aggressively calculated there than among many Northern manufacturers of the time. Details ISBN0674241657 Author Caitlin Rosenthal Publisher Harvard University Press Year 2019 ISBN-10 0674241657 ISBN-13 9780674241657 Format Paperback Imprint Harvard University Press Subtitle Masters and Management Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass Country of Publication United States DEWEY 331.11734097 Short Title Accounting for Slavery Language English Pages 320 NZ Release Date 2019-10-15 US Release Date 2019-10-15 Publication Date 2019-10-15 UK Release Date 2019-10-15 Illustrations 28 photos, 4 illus., 2 tables Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2019-10-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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