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1. Verfasser: Sharpsteen, Bill (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press c2011
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1. Valet Parking; 2. A Carpet of Containers; 3. Moving Cans; 4. The Landlord; 5. The Diesel Death Zone; 6. The Union; 7. The Employers; 8. The Importer; 9. The Shipper; 10. Los Troqueros; 11. The Hold Men; 12. The Women; 13. The Clerk; 14. Security; 15. The New Normal; 16. Hawse Piper; References; Index
The Docks is an eye-opening journey into a giant madhouse of activity that few outsiders ever see: the Port of Los Angeles. In a book woven throughout with riveting novelist detail and illustrated with photographs that capture the frenetic energy of the place, Bill Sharpsteen tells the story of the people who have made this port, the largest in the country, one of the nation's most vital economic enterprises. Among others, we meet a pilot who parks ships, one of the first women longshoremen, union officials and employers at odds over almost everything, an environmental activist fighting air po
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 310 p.)
ISBN:0520261933
0520947096
1282896032
9780520261938
9780520947092
9781282896031

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