The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger /
Levinson, Marc.
The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger / Marc Levinson. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006. - xi, 376 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
0691123241 (hardcover : acidfree paper) 9780691123240 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
2005030021
GBA621142 bnb
013397386 Uk
McLean, Malcolm Purcell, 1913-2001.
Containerization--History.
TA1215 / .L47 2006
387.5/442
The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger / Marc Levinson. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006. - xi, 376 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
0691123241 (hardcover : acidfree paper) 9780691123240 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
2005030021
GBA621142 bnb
013397386 Uk
McLean, Malcolm Purcell, 1913-2001.
Containerization--History.
TA1215 / .L47 2006
387.5/442