Introduction

Alexis madrab looks at global trade through oakland as a way of understanding our economy and the people who make it work. The first episode in this series, we looked at how the global economy has been transformed by containerization. Now almost every consumer item you buy once travelled in a big metal box. There one big reason why things that used to cost half a pay check or a day's labor now cost six bucks at target today. We're going to look at how and why containers move across the world,. what forces pull them from asia to the city of oakland, and who does that work.