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Author Roediger, David R.

Title The production of difference : race and the management of labor in U.S. history / David R. Roediger, Elizabeth D. Esch.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction: race in the history of U.S. management -- Facing South -- The Antebellum South and the origins of race management : African slavery, Indian removal, and Irish labor -- Managing the Negro : the African slave as asset and animal -- Facing West -- Frontiers of control : infrastructure, western expansion, and race management -- Crossing borders: racial knowledge and the transnational triumphs of U.S. management -- Changing the whole story -- Continuity and change: scientific management, race management, and the persistence of the "foremen's empire" -- The crisis of race management: immigrant rebellions, immigration restrictions, and a new focus on Black and Mexican labor -- Afterword: then and now -- Notes -- Index.
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Subject Discrimination in employment -- United States -- History.
Discrimination in employment.
United States.
History.
Labor -- United States -- History.
Labor.
Race discrimination -- United States -- History.
Race discrimination.
United States -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Esch, Elizabeth D.
Other Form: Print version: Roediger, David R. Production of difference. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012 9780199739752 (DLC) 2011038641 (OCoLC)755213385
ISBN 9780199930807 (electronic book)
0199930805 (electronic book)
9780199739752 (hardback)
0199739757 (hardback)