The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author

by Marc Levinson

“Innovations in their early stages are usually exceedingly ill-adapted to the wide range of more specialised uses to which they are eventually put.”

British prime minister Harold Macmillan, confronted with yet another strike threat, opined in 1962, “The dockers are such difficult people, just the fathers and the sons, the uncles and nephews. So like the House of Lords, hereditary and no intelligence required.”