From Bondage to Contract or 9 11 and the Future of Transportation Security

From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation

Author: Amy Dru Stanley

This book explores the centrality of contract to debates over freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century America. It focuses on the contracts of wage labor and marriage, investigating the connections between abolition in the South and industrial capitalism in the North and linking labor relations to home life. Integrating the fields of gender and legal, intellectual and social history, it reveals how abolitionists, former slaves, feminists, laborers, lawmakers and others drew on contract to condemn chattel slavery and to measure the virtues of free society.

What People Are Saying

Hendrik Hartog
Brilliantly researched and skillfully argued, this is a work that transcends genres and subdisciplines, one that historians of gender, of labor, of poverty, legal historians, historians of political thought, public choice theorists, not to mention everybody who identifies as a liberal or a libertarian, will have to confront. -- Princeton University

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Legends of Contract Freedom	1
2	The Labor Question and the Sale of Self	60
3	Beggars Can't Be Choosers	98
4	The Testing Ground of Home Life	138
5	Wage Labor and Marriage Bonds	175
6	The Purchase of Women	218
	Afterword	264
	Index	269

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9/11 and the Future of Transportation Security

Author: R William Johnston

R. William Johnstone served on the transportation security staff of the 9/11 Commission, and wrote this book to build upon and supplement the Commission's work. In its pages, he explains the aviation security system failure on 9/11, uses that as a means for evaluating post-9/11 transportation security efforts, and proposes remedies to continued shortcomings. 9/11 and the Future of Transportation Security is based on information originally provided to the 9/11 Commission, augmented by unpublished reports and a wealth of other material that has come to light since the issuance of the Commission's own report in July 2004. Part One analyzes the aviation security system's history and institutions to explain why the system failed on 9/11. Part Two looks at what has been done in aviation and transportation security since 9/11, including the Commission's recommendations and the congressional response to them. Finally and most significantly, Part Three outlines a suggested approach for improving current U.S. transportation security. It begins with fundamental policy questions that must be answered if we are to optimize transportation security efforts, and concludes with both underlying principles for action and specific recommendations.