The production of difference
Subtitle: race and the management of U.S. labor
By: David R. Roediger, Elizabeth D. Esch
Contributors: Esch, Elizabeth D.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199739752
Subjects: Race relations; History; Race discrimination; Discrimination in employment; Labor
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: race in the history of U.S. management; title: Facing South; title: The Antebellum South and the origins of race management : African slavery, Indian removal, and Irish labor; title: Managing the Negro : the African slave as asset and animal; title: Facing West; title: Frontiers of control : infrastructure, western expansion, and race management; title: Crossing borders : racial knowledge and the transnational triumphs of U.S. management; title: Changing the whole story; title: Continuity and change : scientific management, race management, and the persistence of the "foremen's empire"; title: The crisis of race management : immigrant rebellions, immigration restrictions, and a new focus on Black and Mexican labor; title: Afterword: then and now; title: Notes; title: Index.