TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Accounting for slavery : masters and management
A1  - Rosenthal, Caitlin, kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5457698
AB  - 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.--
SN  - 978-0-674-97209-4 sidottu
KW  - Slavery : Economic aspects : United States : History : 18th century.
KW  - Slavery : Economic aspects : United States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Slavery : Economic aspects : West Indies, British : History : 18th century.
KW  - Slavery : Economic aspects : West Indies, British : History : 19th century.
KW  - Human capital : United States : History.
KW  - Human capital : West Indies, British : History.
KW  - Plantations : United States : Accounting : History.
KW  - Plantations : West Indies, British : Accounting : History.
KW  - Plantation owners : United States : History.
KW  - Plantation owners : West Indies, British : History.
KW  - orjuus
KW  - orjakauppa
KW  - plantaasit
KW  - henkinen pääoma
KW  - työvoima
KW  - taloushistoria
KW  - historia
KW  - slaveri
KW  - slavhandel
KW  - plantager
KW  - humankapital
KW  - arbetskraft
KW  - ekonomisk historia
KW  - Yhdysvallat
KW  - Länsi-Intia
KW  - Förenta staterna
KW  - Västindien
ER  -