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


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


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


• Part II Facing West


• Ch 3 Infrastructure, Internal Expansion, and Race Management


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


• Part III Changing the Whole Story


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


• Ch 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 at Barnard College.