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The Box That Changed Britain
2010 · Film · 59 min
Poet Roger McGough narrates the story of how a simple invention - the shipping container - changed the world forever and forced Britain into the modern era of globalisation.
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"The box that changed Britain" is a good BBC documentary on the subject as well if you can find it online.
Andi f anyone can find it the documentary "The box that changed Britain" http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00scpzn is really good, especially on the social aspects (e.g. dock workers and indistrial heartland collapse).
EDIT found a version online: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5f7n8v
And if you can find it, the BBC TV documentary "The box that changed Britain" is a good one.
> "Before containers, transport costs ate up to 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped."
And lost you a portion of the cargo if you were shipping something the dockyard workers had a fancy for (Barrels of whiskey "accidentally broken" during loading was a common one.)
There is a fantastic BBC documentary called "The Box that changed Britain" which charts the rise of containerization and the massive affect it had on maritime trade, the ports and workers.