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

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 po...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fabey, Michael (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company > History.
Shipbuilding > Virginia > Newport News > History.
Shipbuilding industry > Virginia > Newport News > Employees > History.
Aircraft carriers > United States > Design and construction.
Newport News (Va.) > History, Naval.
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company.
Aircraft carriers > Design and construction.
Shipbuilding.
Shipbuilding industry > Employees.
United States.
Virginia > Newport News.
History.
Naval history.
Description
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.
Physical Description:x, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
ISBN:9780062996251
0062996258