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

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199912612
EAN: F53DFC66EB
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Stron: 296
Data wydania: 2012
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In 1907, pioneering labor historian and economist John Commons argued that U.S.          management had shown just one "e;symptom of originality,"e; namely "e;playing one race        against the other."e;In this eye-opening book, David Roediger and Elizabeth Esch offer        a radically new way of understanding the history of management in the United States,        placing race, migration, and empire at the center of what has sometimes been        narrowly seen as a search for efficiency and economy. Ranging from the antebellum        period to the coming of the Great Depression, the book examines the extensive        literature slave masters produced on how to manage and "e;develop"e; slaves; explores        what was perhaps the greatest managerial feat in U.S. history, the building of the        transcontinental railroad, which pitted Chinese and Irish work gangs against each        other; and concludes by looking at how these strategies survive today in the        management of hard, low-paying, dangerous jobs in agriculture, military support, and        meatpacking. Roediger and Esch convey what slaves, immigrants, and all working        people were up against as the objects of managerial control. Managers explicitly        ranked racial groups, both in terms of which labor they were best suited for and        their relative value compared to others. The authors show how whites relied on such        alleged racial knowledge to manage and believed that the "e;lesser races"e; could only        benefit from their tutelage. These views wove together managerial strategies and        white supremacy not only ideologically but practically, every day at workplaces.          Even in factories governed by scientific management, the impulse to play races        against each other, and to slot workers into jobs categorized by race, constituted        powerful management tools used to enforce discipline, lower wages, keep workers on        dangerous jobs, and undermine solidarity.Painstakingly researched and brilliantly        argued, The Production of Difference will revolutionize the history of labor and        race in the United States.

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