The connectivity of the current age is of a fundamentally different order to what has gone before. Today, the speed of communications allows for information and services to be exchanged in the blink of an eye. At the same time, goods are able to traverse...
Because there are many approaches to and conceptions of globalization the origins of it are disputed. Some say it began in modern times. Others suggest that it is a phenomenon that started centuries ago. In The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman describes globalization as having...
Although most cargo moves over the ocean, various factors have fueled the swift expansion of air freight since World War II. For example, the postwar push to open global markets decreased the cost of air freight and increased its viability. By the mid- 1960s, the...
The advent of the container engendered many things. One was rampant resistance. Various attempts were made to thwart the spread of the container, or the “longshoreman’s coffin” as it was called. This is because in free-market terms, technological innovations like the container produce threats—particularly to workers...
The steamship put new life into global production and trade and transfigured all facets of global society. Steam power was an integral aspect of the Industrial Revolution and the nineteenth century that embodied it. Unlike muscle power, it never tired, slept, or refused to obey....