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.

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction Race in the History of U.S. Management: An Introduction


• Part I Facing South


• 1. Settling on Slavery: The Antebellum South and the Origins of U.S. Race Management


• 2. Managing Contradictions and Managing a Race: The Slave as Asset and Animal


• Part II Facing West


• 3.Infrastructure, Internal Expansion, and Race Management


• 4.The Worlds of U.S. Race Management


• Part III Changing the Whole Story


• 5. Scientific Management, Racial Science, and the Studied Unstudiedness of Race Management


• 6. The Crisis and Concentration of Race Management: Immigrant Rebellion, Immigrant Restruction, and Turns to Black and Mexican Labor


• Notes


• Index

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.