Marc Levinson is an economist and historian specializing in business and finance. He was formerly finance and economics editor of The Economist, worked as an economist at a New York bank, and served as senior fellow for international business at the Council on Foreign Relations. For more information, check out his website at www.marclevinson.net.
In 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.</p>
Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world.</p>
But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, both from private investors and from ports that aspired to be on the leading edge of a new technology. It required years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on standards that made it possible for almost any container to travel on any truck or train or ship. Ultimately, it took McLean's success in supplying U.S. forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container's potential.</p>
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.</p>
本来是一本不错的书,只读了一章,好心情就全被毁了... 第一章的里面共标注了17个注释,可是看完第一章后直接就是第二章了,咦?注释呢?翻到最后一页,也没有啊,再回头看目录,有啊!在最后啊!可我的怎么木有啊?哥仔细一看,目录的最下面有一行小字:本书的注释及参考文献...
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評分此书描述了集装箱改变了航运业的整个历程:包括集装箱出现前,整个航运业的现状:货物散乱,运输不便,码头割据,工人混乱,政府管控垄断定价,货物运输各种弊端。随着技术进步,马克莱恩作为集装箱航运的一个最重要推动者,从轮船、集装箱、卡车、铁路、码头等各方面硬件上如...
今天的人們已經很難想象這個醜陋的鋁製二十英尺標準的大盒子是如何深刻而不可逆轉地改變瞭我們日常生活的每一個角落。標準化大規模的工業生産並沒有在新時代失去他的魅力,反而以一種更加無可阻擋的趨勢席捲全球。書中提到紐約港的衰落和新澤西伊麗莎白港的崛起時真是慨嘆萬分,站在風口的人,永遠永遠不要逆風走下去 #美國的工會真心就是毒瘤癌細胞
评分讀到集裝箱剛開始被推廣的時候,受到瞭碼頭和搬運工工會的阻撓,想起來這兩年大傢對人工智能的擔憂,頗為相似
评分201404,Its a history book. Yes, HISTORY!!!
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