Please see below the assigned scope of work. I would like to address my memo (from the position of being the Chief Executive Officer) to my Chief Human Resources Officer and to my Chief Financial Officer, making them reflect on HR practices and reporting and accounting methodologies and how this can impact on workforce, by understanding better how these practices were utilized to exploit human beings during slavery.
To write this essay, beside the attached readings, you will need to read also the following book:
Accounting for Slavery, Caitlin Rosenthal.
Here is the assignment:
Drawing upon evidence from course readings, lectures, and discussions write a 1000-1200 word memo that:
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a. Addresses (your choice here) colleagues, co-workers, supervisors, direct reports, bosses, etc. as to how they might think differently about some aspect of their work by knowing more about the history of slavery, the slave trade, and abolition. You can be very specific about the audience for your memo in a To: line and you should write this as if you intend it to circulate to that audience.
In either case, you will be mobilizing the assigned readings and lectures to put past and present in conversation. The memo will be mostly historical, devoting the bulk (~75%) of its analysis to slavery’s history (the period 1500–1888). Your thesis should address the specific relevance that slavery’s history has on some facet of contemporary business or economics, or vice- versa. This is your moment to teach and you will be putting what we’ve read and discussed in this class in the service to convincing people to think more deeply and/or differently about the intertwined histories of slavery and capitalism.
