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Author / Creator:	Sharpsteen, Bill, 1954-
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Harbors -- California -- Los Angeles. Stevedores -- California -- Los Angeles. Harbors. Stevedores. California -- Los Angeles. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11235054

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ISBN:	9780520947092 0520947096 1282896032 9781282896031 9780520261938 0520261933
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Sharpsteen, Bill, 1954- Docks. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520261938

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