The box: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger
Book 2759/Completed: 7/24/2013
Author: | Levinson, Marc. world smaller and the world economy bigger / Marc Levinson. | Published: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006. | Description: | xi, 376 p. ; 24 cm. | LC Call No.: | TA1215.L47 2006 | Book Number: | 55.15 | Dewey No.: | 387.5/442 22 | ISBN: | 0691123241 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 9780691123240 (hardcover : | acid-free paper) | Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-363) and index. | | The world the box made -- Gridlock on the docks -- The trucker -- The system -- The battle for New York's port -- Union disunion -- Setting the standard -- Takeoff -- Vietnam -- Ports in a storm -- Boom and bust -- The bigness complex -- The shippers'revenge -- Just in time. | Subjects: | Containerization -- History. | | McLean, Malcolm Purcell, 1913-2001. |
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