TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosenthal,Caitlin
TI  - Accounting for slavery: masters and management 
SN  - 9780674988590
AV  - HT905 .A236 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - West Indies, British
KW  - Human capital
KW  - Plantations
KW  - Accounting
KW  - Plantation owners
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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.--
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