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Devils on the deep blue sea : the dreams, schemes, and showdowns that built America's cruise ship empires
- Title
- Devils on the deep blue sea : the dreams, schemes, and showdowns that built America's cruise ship empires / Kristoffer A. Garin.
- Author
- Garin, Kristoffer A.
- Publication
- New York : Viking, [2005], ©2005.
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- Description
- xii, 366 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Few businesses are as colorful, lucrative, innovative or controversial as modern cruise shipping, yet until now no book has taken account of its remarkable rise and the outsize characters who have made it the contemporary examplar of ruthless, bare-knuckled capitalism. Kristoffer A. Garin's Devils on the Deep Blue Sea is a history of this always astonishing industry, infusing the genre of the business narrative with sparkling cultural commentary and compelling social criticism as it traces cruising's growth." "This is the story of two generations of entrepreneurial genius that built on a system of foreign registry that allows the cruise lines to avoid hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. taxes, to save more than $1 billion annually in payroll costs by ducking U.S. labor laws and to keep themselves virtually untouchable in prosecutions for environmental crimes."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-353) and index.
- ISBN
- 0670034185
- LCCN
- 2005042212
- OCLC
- 57754285
- ocm57754285
- SCSB-5203099
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries