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050		4	_aTA1215 _b.L47 2008
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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			_aPbk. ed. / _bwith a new preface by the author.
260			_aPrinceton, N.J. ; _aWoodstock : _bPrinceton University Press, _c2008.
300			_axvii, 376 p. ; _c24 cm.
500			_aOriginally published: 2006.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [343]-363) and index.
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 made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe.--From publisher description.
505	0	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.
600	1	0	_aMcLean, Malcolm Purcell, _d1913-2001.
650		0	_aContainerization _xHistory.
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