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The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger

Author: Marc Levinson
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Malcolm Purcell McLean
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Marc Levinson
ISBN: 0691123241 9780691123240
OCLC Number: 62161116
Description: xi, 376 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgments -- ch. 1. The world the box made -- ch. 2. Gridlock on the docks -- ch. 3. The trucker -- ch. 4. The system -- ch. 5. The battle for New York's port -- ch. 6. Union disunion -- ch. 7. Setting the standard -- ch. 8. Takeoff -- ch. 9. Vietnam -- ch. 10. Ports in a storm -- ch. 11. Boom and bust -- ch. 12. The bigness complex -- ch. 13. The shippers' revenge -- ch. 14. Just in time -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Responsibility: Marc Levinson.
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