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Episode 8: Robots, Piers Full of Robots

Apr 19th, 2017 31m 16s

In the conclusion of this series, we peer into the future of human-robot combinations on the waterfront and in the rest of the supply chain. We’ll hear about the strange future of cyborg trucking and meet the friendly little helper bots in ware

Episode 7: The Lost Docks

Apr 12th, 2017 39m 31s

It’s 1979 and containerization is sweeping through the San Francisco waterfront, leaving the old docks in ruins. As global trade explodes, a group of longshoremen band together to try to preserve the culture of work that they knew. They take pi

Episode 6: And They Won, They Won Big

Apr 5th, 2017 31m 14s

It started with a puzzle: why were people in West Oakland dying 12-15years earlier than their counterparts in the wealthier hills? Thepeople in the flatlands were dying of the same things as the people inthe hills, just much younger. Meet th

Episode 5: The America-First Ships

Mar 28th, 2017 28m 10s

American companies pioneered container shipping, but now the ocean freight business is dominated by foreign firms. Thanks to the Jones Act, a 1920 law, all cargo between American ports must be carried on American-made ships, so we do still have

Episode 4: The Hidden Side of Coffee

1 Mar 21st, 2017 35m 29s

The coffee world has changed since Starbucks rose to prominence. Notonly has the sourcing of beans acquired wine-like precision, but nowthere are many small, local roasters. How'd this all happen? Episode 4brings you into the infrastructure

Episode 3: The Ships, The Tugs, and the Port

Mar 14th, 2017 31m

You know you’ve always wanted to ride in a tugboat as it pushes around a huge cargo ship, right? Well, that’s what we do in Episode 3. We go inside working life on the San Francisco Bay to see how brutal competition among shipping companies thr

Episode 2: Meet the Sailors

Mar 7th, 2017 26m 37s

What is life like as a modern sailor, a tiny person on a huge ship in a vast ocean? Here is your answer. Episode 2 brings you a rare look into the lives of two Filipino sailors, fresh off a trip across the Pacific Ocean. These are regular peopl

Episode 1: Welcome to Global Capitalism

1 Feb 28th, 2017 41m 12s

Alexis Madrigal brings you the gripping story of how a new way of shipping stuff across the ocean fed the Vietnam War, destroyed America's great port cities, and created global trade as we know it.

Introducing Containers

Feb 24th, 2017 4m 23s

Containers provides an illuminating, deep, and weird look at how capitalism works now. It's about huge ships and global trade and the work people do to bring you the stuff you buy from all over the world.

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