Episode 7: The Lost Docks by Containers published on 2017-04-13T17:29:44Z 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 pictures, create a slide show, and make sound recordings. Those recordings languished in a basement for 40 years. In this episode, we hear those archival tapes as a way of exploring the human effects of automation. Comment by Jeffery Brewer I'm loving this series and found this episode particularly moving. The stories of the dock workers are very satisfying, and the reality of automation wiping out their world could not be more poignant as it seems like it was just the foreshadowing of even greater automation to come. Thanks so much for this series..my only regret is that I only have one more chapter to go! 2017-04-25T02:26:31Z