The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History

Roediger, David R., Esch, Elizabeth D.

ISBN 10: 0199376484 / ISBN 13: 9780199376483

Published by Oxford University Press, 2014

About this Item

Centering on race and empire, this book revolutionizes the history of management. From slave management to U.S. managers functioning as transnational experts on managing diversity, it shows how "modern management" was made at the margins. Even in "scientific" management, playing races against each other remained a hallmark of managerial strategy. Num Pages: 300 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 233 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442. . 2014. Reprint. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199376484
• ISBN 13: 9780199376483
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Centering on race and empire, this book revolutionizes the history of management. From slave management to U.S. managers functioning as transnational experts on managing diversity, it shows how "modern management" was made at the margins. Even in "scientific" management, playing races against each other remained a hallmark of managerial strategy.

About the Author

David R. Roediger is Babcock Professor of History, University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana, and the author of How Race Survived U.S. History and The Wages of Whiteness, among other titles.

Elizabeth D. Esch is Assistant Professor of History and American Studies and a member of the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Study at Barnard College-Columbia University.