| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 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. |
| Summary |
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 po. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Harbors -- California -- Los Angeles.
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Harbors. |
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California -- Los Angeles. |
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Stevedores -- California -- Los Angeles.
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Stevedores. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sharpsteen, Bill, 1954- Docks. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520261938 (DLC) 2010009706 (OCoLC)591770226 |
| ISBN |
9780520947092 (electronic book) |
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0520947096 (electronic book) |
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1282896032 |
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9781282896031 |
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9780520261938 |
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0520261933 |
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