Heavy metal : the hard days and nights of the shipyard workers who build America's supercarriers / Michael Fabey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fabey, Michael, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company--History.

Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company.

Shipbuilding--Virginia--Newport News--History.

Shipbuilding.

Shipbuilding industry--Virginia--Newport News--Employees--History.

Shipbuilding industry.

Aircraft carriers--United States--Design and construction.

Aircraft carriers.

Newport News (Va.)--History, Naval.

Newport News (Va.).

Aircraft carriers--Design and construction.

Shipbuilding industry--Employees.

United States.

Virginia--Newport News.

Genre:

History.

Naval history.

Physical Description:

x, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

Summary:

Presents the extraordinary story of the Newport News Shipbuilding yard in Virginia and its thirty thousand employees and shipyard workers who battle layoffs, the elements, impossible deadlines, extraordinary pressure, workplace dangers, and a pandemic to build the U.S. Navy's newest and most powerful aircraft carrier.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Steel City

2. Outclassed

3. Steel Vets

4. Labor Gains

5. Metal Data

6. Setting Precedents

7. Trade Wars

8. Weapons Await

9. Trump Card

10. The Flood Cometh

11. Blame Game

12. Caroline, Again

13. On Course

14. Covid Carrier

15. A Matter of Culture

16. Ship Shape.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780062996251

0062996258

OCLC:

1331440740