The Docks (eBook)

Bill Sharpsteen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
328 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-94709-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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 pollution in the "diesel death zone," and those with the nearly impossible job of enforcing security. Together these stories paint a compelling picture of a critical entryway for goods coming into the country—the Port of Los Angeles is part of a complex that brings in 40% of all our waterborne cargo and 70% of all Asian imports—yet one that is also extremely vulnerable. The Docks is a rare look at a world within our world in which we find a microcosm of the labor, environmental, and security issues we collectively face.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.1.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Bildbände
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bauwesen
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: american port • Asian imports • California • Career • Chaos • Docks • economic enterprises • economic politics • Economics • Energy • environmental activists • goods • Illustrated • Imports and exports • Interesting stories • Labor • largest port • longshoremen • Los Angeles • Nonfiction • Photographs • pollution • port of los angeles • seafaring • security • security issues • shipping • ships and boats • Sociology • Transportation • Unions • United States • waterborne cargo
• ISBN-10: 0-520-94709-6 / 0520947096
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-94709-2 / 9780520947092