Rants and Raves

The Box – *****

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy BiggerThe Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this but I’m not sure my friends will – but hey, I could be wrong.

I originally wanted to learn about containers themselves and their history because I’m fascinated with how architects and builders use discarded ones.

But this book was all-encompassing and deals with not only the container’s history, but the history of shipping, trucking, trains, economics, unions, city governments, and everyone’s favorite topic: automation and increasing efficiencies in the workplace.

Even the Jones Act comes up and that’s been in the news a lot thanks to the Chief Orangutan and Puerto Rico.

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