"The Docks" is an eye-opening journey into a giant madhouse of
activity that few outsiders ever see: the Port of Los Angeles. In a
book woven throughout with riveting novelist detail and illustrated
with photographs that capture the frenetic energy of the place,
Bill Sharpsteen tells the story of the people who have made this
port, the largest in the country, one of the nation's most vital
economic enterprises. Among others, we meet a pilot who parks
ships, one of the first women longshoremen, union officials and
employers at odds over almost everything, an environmental activist
fighting air pollution in the 'diesel death zone,' and those with
the nearly impossible job of enforcing security. Together these
stories paint a compelling picture of a critical entryway for goods
coming into the country - the Port of Los Angeles is part of a
complex that brings in 40 per cent of all our waterborne cargo and
70 per cent of all Asian imports - yet one that is also extremely
vulnerable. "The Docks" is a rare look at a world within our world
in which we find a microcosm of the labor, environmental, and
security issues we collectively face.
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