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The Production of Difference : Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History by Esch, Elizabeth D., Roediger, David R. is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Production of Difference : Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History about?
In 1907, pioneering labor historian and economist John Commons argued that U.S. management had shown just one "symptom of originality," namely "playing one race against the other." 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
Who reads The Production of Difference : Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Esch, Elizabeth D., Roediger, David R.
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199930807
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Management, History, Anthropology
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5 (10 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14