#caitlinrosenthal — Public Fediverse posts

Ben Affleck got PBS to cover up the fact that an unnamed-in-the-article ancestor was a slave owner. I wonder if it was Thomas Affleck, whose publication The Cotton Plantation Record and Account Book was a major influence on the use of the pushing system which, through unspeakable violence, allowed cotton planters to rapidly and continually increase the productivity of their slaves.

Thomas Affleck's work figures prominently in Caitlin Rosenthal's breakthrough work Accounting for Slavery, which traces the origin of modern management techniques, including Taylorism, back to methods employed on cotton plantations.

#BenAffleck #ThomasAffleck #Slavery #Cotton #PushingSystem #Plantations #Capitalism #Management #Taylorism #CaitlinRosenthal #AccountingForSlavery

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/25/417455657/after-ben-affleck-scandal-pbs-postpones-finding-your-roots

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Affleck_(planter)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Plantation_Record_and_Account_Book

https://search.worldcat.org/title/1090005373

https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/08/slavery-under-the-pushing-system-why-systematic-violence-became-a-necessity.html

> Slavery and scientific management were good at extracting productivity gains from slaves/workers in fields and factories. Most of the economic metrics we use today were invented then. Interestingly modern accounting is closely intertwined with the history of slavery. That’s the subject of a book titled Accounting for #Slavery by #CaitlinRosenthal which examines how slavery laid the foundation of American capitalism
https://laetitiaatwork.substack.com/p/5-reasons-why-i-dont-want-to-be-productive
#LaëtitiaVitaud #Vitaud #Productivity #Accounting