Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History

by David R. Roediger and Elizabeth D. Esch

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199739757
• ISBN13: 9780199739752
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"