
Episode 1: Welcome to Global Capitalism
Containers
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The Economic Impact of Containerization on Globalization
Containerization is a significant economic force that changed the economic geography of the world/nIt made corporate sense to manufacture in countries with cheap labor and simply ship to richer places/nContainerization facilitated globalization and made it easy to import goods from other countries/nSome people, like longshoreman Herb Mills, have a negative view of containerization and believe it destroyed manufacturing in the US by importing goods from other places.
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