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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.
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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
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- 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
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