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.