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050 0 0 _aTA1215
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100 1 _aLevinson, Marc,
245 1 4 _aThe box :
_bhow the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger /
_cMarc Levinson.
250 _aSecond edition.
264 1 _aPrinceton, New Jersey :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2016]
300 _axx, 516 pages :
_billustration ;
_c21 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe 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 -- Adding value.
520 _aIn April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that reshaped manufacturing. But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, years of high-stakes bargaining, and delicate negotiation on standards. Now with a new chapter, The Box tells the dramatic story of how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur turned containerization from an impractical idea into a phenomenon that transformed economic geography, slashed transportation costs, and made the boom in global trade possible. -- from back cover.
650 0 _aContainerization
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMcLean, Malcolm Purcell,
_d1913-2001.
776 0 8 _iElectronic version:
_aLevinson, Marc.
_tBox.
_bSecond edition.
_dPrinceton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2016
_z9781400880751
_w(OCoLC)942755052.
999 _c522582
_d522582