Scientific Management, Racist Science, and Race Management
Scientific Management, Racist Science, and Race Management
Elizabeth Esch and David Roediger highlight the ways employers and their allies used racism to divide the working classes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Such racist practices began under slavery, and continued well into the early twentieth century as they constructed hierarchical workplaces which they deemed as natural; unions and solidarity in their estimation subverted the natural order. They call this practice “race management.” Employers seeking control over the workforce benefited from racism.
Keywords: race management, racism, slavery, Taylorism, scientific management, open-shop
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