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Episode 144: More Than Just a Box
Episode 144: More Than Just a Box
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31 minutes
Released:
Jun 9, 2017
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This week we’re joined by Matthew Heins to talk about his book The Globalization of American Infrastructure: The Shipping Container and Freight Transportation. Matthew talks about how the American highway and rail systems created a global standard for shipping containers, the local actors shaping globalization, containerization’s effects on labor and relevance to an automated trucking future, and the massive intermodal terminals in cities like Chicago.
Released:
Jun 9, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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