The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger
(2006)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
387.5442/LEVINSON,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2006]
©2006
©2006
DESCRIPTION
xi, 376 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0691123241 (hardcover), 9780691123240
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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