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This is not the rose-colored answer you might be looking for, but contrary to popular belief (which usually start with Henry Ford) a lot of modern day “manageme

This is not the rose-colored answer you might be looking for, but contrary to popular belief (which usually start with Henry Ford) a lot of modern day “management techniques” were actually invented at slavery plantations [1] I can recommend the following books on the history of capitalism (which is closely linked to the exploitation of labor aka management): - Empire of Cotton (Sven Beckert) - Nature’s Metropolis (Cronon) [1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/slavery-capitalism.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/slav...

gryn 5y ago
isn't much older than that? I did zero research on the subject, and the only thing I was taught in school about its history was the usual story about Henry Ford, Fred Taylor and the rest of the company ... but, I remember watching a documentary about the construction of the Egyptian pyramids. in it there was a part about how they hired people to monitor and 'motivate'(mostly with a whip) the workers (mostly slaves), how much their were paid (more than the workers) and the hierarchy above them.
elefanten 5y ago
This take deserves so many asterisks and caveats, that it won't be recognizable coming out of the other end. This source is a fashionable, knee-jerk narrative from a heavily contested historical effort (1619 Project already discussed ad nauseum). This particular piece is basically a marketing piece from the publication that funded the project. On top of that, the piece you linked doesn't come anywhere near making the argument you attribute to it. It has some sharp rhetoric from some totally random people that draws links between US capitalism and US slavery. There is absolutely no historical assessment of the evolution of managerial techniques vis-a-vis a link to slavery.

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This is not the rose-colored answer you might be looking for, but contrary to popular belief (which usually start with Henry Ford) a lot of modern day “manageme

by vincentmarle 5y ago

gryn 5y ago
isn't much older than that? I did zero research on the subject, and the only thing I was taught in school about its history was the usual story about Henry Ford, Fred Taylor and the rest of the company ... but, I remember watching a documentary about the construction of the Egyptian pyramids. in it there was a part about how they hired people to monitor and 'motivate'(mostly with a whip) the workers (mostly slaves), how much their were paid (more than the workers) and the hierarchy above them.
elefanten 5y ago
This take deserves so many asterisks and caveats, that it won't be recognizable coming out of the other end. This source is a fashionable, knee-jerk narrative from a heavily contested historical effort (1619 Project already discussed ad nauseum). This particular piece is basically a marketing piece from the publication that funded the project. On top of that, the piece you linked doesn't come anywhere near making the argument you attribute to it. It has some sharp rhetoric from some totally random people that draws links between US capitalism and US slavery. There is absolutely no historical assessment of the evolution of managerial techniques vis-a-vis a link to slavery.