Why is everything you own made somewhere else?

Our first film follows a steel box, a trucker who was tired of waiting, and the dockworkers who paid the price.

The Ideal X with boxes on a raised deck, 1956. Illustrated reconstruction.
8:01CC · EN · NL

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“In 1970, London still had 16,573 registered dockworkers. By 1989, 1,739 were left.”

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UK Parliament, Hansard, 16 May 1989Supports: registered London dockworkers, 16,573 in 1970 and 1,739 in 1989.

See all 14 sources in film 1

Films

Film 1

How a truck driver shrank the world

Trade & transport · 8 min · 14 sources

Film 2 · coming soon

How nutmeg built the stock market

Money & trust · The Dutch East India Company and the first share anyone could buy

Series