The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger
Telling the story of the shipping container's creation - and the economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about - this book offers a history of the revolution in international trade which ultimately heralded the age of globalization
Print Book, English, ©2006
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2006
Nonfiction
xi, 376 pages ; 24 cm
9780691123240, 9780691136400, 9781400828586, 0691123241, 0691136408, 1400828589
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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