The box
Subtitle: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger
By: Marc Levinson.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780691123240
Subjects: McLean, Malcolm Purcell, -- 1913-2001; Containerization -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-363) and index.
Table of contents: title: The world the box made; title: Gridlock on the docks; title: The trucker; title: The system; title: The battle for New York's port; title: Union disunion; title: Setting the standard; title: Takeoff; title: Vietnam; title: Ports in a storm; title: Boom and bust; title: The bigness complex; title: The shippers' revenge; title: Just in time.