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

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