Heavy metal : the hard days and nights of the shipyard workers who build America's supercarriers
(2022)
By:
Fabey, Michael
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
338.476238/FABEY,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
©2022
©2022
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
x, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780062996251, 0062996258, 9780062996251
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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