The production of difference: race and the management of labor in U.S. history

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.