Premium Episode 79 - Plantation Accounting in Jamaica
Added 2023-12-09 15:20:37 +0000 UTCHaving laid out various accounting concepts, I now introduce their application in a horrible setting: plantation accounting in Jamaica. To do this, I rely on a close reading of Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Rosenthal. Her work simply demolishes the traditional business history about the development of these concepts. As it turns out, slave plantations actually led the global economy in new developments of field and factory regarding management styles, industrialization, organizational structure, accounting methods, and a number of other things.
I discuss the nature of the sugar trade, questions of efficiency, the weaponization of data, the question of absentee ownership, and the nature of quantification itself.
episode art by Robert Voyvodich @r.voy__
Links:
https://programmed-to-chill.myshopify.com/
Songs:
My Queen is Ada Eastman by Sons of Kemet
Great Britain by Scorzayzee
Comments
Off topic but recommending here the three volume Africa En America, available on Spotify. It's got African American music from Canada to Tierra Del Fuego. Real American Music here thanks for these episodes JFG
Keith Allen Dennis
2024-01-02 00:18:25 +0000 UTCOhhh she's a bit of a spook isn't she? Great episode
River B
2023-12-14 00:21:45 +0000 UTC
