Heavy Metal
The Hard Days and Nights of the Shipyard Workers Who Build America's Supercarriers
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: x, 306 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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.
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 -- 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.
ISBN:
9780062996251
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY Military Fab | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |