Ninety Percent of Everything Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

Name: Ninety Percent of Everything Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
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ISBN: 9781250058294

ISBN-10: 1250058295

ISBN-13: 9781250058294

Edition: 2014

Authors: Rose George

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Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilizationOn ship-tracking websites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we no longer produce but buy. We buy, so we must ship. Without shipping there would be no clothes, food, paper, or fuel. Without all those dots, the world would not work.Freight shipping has been no less revolutionary than the printing press or the Internet, yet it is all but invisible. Away from public scrutiny, shipping revels in suspect practices, dubious operators, and a shady system of "flags of…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 9/9/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.45" wide x 8.20" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English