Auto mechanics : technology and expertise in twentieth-century America / Kevin L. Borg.
2007
TL153 .B667 2007 (Mapit)
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Title
Auto mechanics : technology and expertise in twentieth-century America / Kevin L. Borg.
Author
ISBN
9780801886065 (alk. paper)
0801886066 (alk. paper)
0801886066 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Language
English
Description
viii, 249 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
TL153 .B667 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.4/762928720973
Note
Developed from author's dissertation for the Hagley Program in the History of Industrialization, University of Delaware.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Studies in industry and society
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Table of Contents
The problem with chauffeur-mechanics
Ad hoc mechanics
Creating new mechanics
The automobile in public education
Tinkering with socio-technical hierarchies
Suburban paradox : maintaining automobility
"Check engine" : technology of distrust.
Ad hoc mechanics
Creating new mechanics
The automobile in public education
Tinkering with socio-technical hierarchies
Suburban paradox : maintaining automobility
"Check engine" : technology of distrust.