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DESCRIPTION:The entire ɬŔď·¬ Law Community is invited to join Professor Ig
 nacio Cofone’s BUS 365 Business Associations’ class for a guest lecture by
  Professor Caitlin Rosenthal\, U. California\, for the second Slavery & Th
 e Law lecture in this year’s series.\n\nTo participate and receive the Zoo
 m link\, kindly RSVP to lldrl.law [at] mcgill.ca.\n\nCaitlin Rosenthal's b
 ook\, Accounting for Slavery. Mastery\, Management and American Capitalism
  (Harvard University Press\, 2018)\, is a unique contribution to the decad
 es-long effort to understand New World slavery’s complex relationship with
  capitalism. Through careful analysis of plantation records\, Caitlin Rose
 nthal explores the development of quantitative management practices on Wes
 t Indian and Southern plantations. She shows how planter-capitalists built
  sophisticated organizational structures and even practiced an early form 
 of scientific management. They subjected enslaved people to experiments\, 
 such as allocating and reallocating labour from crop to crop\, planning me
 als and lodging\, and carefully recording daily productivity. The incentiv
 e strategies they crafted offered rewards\, but also threatened brutal pun
 ishment.\n\nThe traditional story of modern management focuses on the fact
 ories of England and New England\, but Rosenthal demonstrates that investo
 rs in West Indian and Southern plantations used complex accounting practic
 es\, sometimes before their Northern counterparts. For example\, some plan
 ters depreciated their human capital decades before the practice was a wid
 ely used accounting technique. Contrary to narratives that depict slavery 
 as a barrier to innovation\, Accounting for Slavery explains how elite pla
 nters turned their power over enslaved people into a productivity advantag
 e. The brutality of slavery was readily compatible with the development of
  new quantitative techniques for workforce organization.\n\nBy showing the
  many ways that business innovation can be a by-product of bondage\, Rosen
 thal further erodes the false boundary between capitalism and slavery and 
 illuminates deep parallels between the outlooks of eighteenth- and ninetee
 nth-century slaveholders and the ethical dilemmas facing twenty-first-cent
 ury businesses.\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nCaitlin C. Rosenthal is an associa
 te professor in the Department of History at UC Berkeley. Her research foc
 uses on the development of management practices\, especially those based o
 n data analysis. Methodologically\, she seeks to blend qualitative and qua
 ntitative methods and to combine insights from business history\, economic
  history\, and labour history.\n
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LOCATION:Online event.
SUMMARY:Accounting for Slavery. Mastery\, Management and American Capitalis
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URL:/law/channels/event/accounting-slavery-mastery-man
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