• Media type: Book
  • Title: Auto mechanics : technology and expertise in twentieth-century America
  • Contains: 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
  • Contributor: Borg, Kevin L. [Author]
  • imprint: Baltimore, Me.: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2007
  • Published in: Studies in industry and society
  • Extent: VIII, 249 S; Ill., graph. Darst
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0801886066; 9780801886065
  • RVK notation: NW 3350 : Landverkehr
    QR 524 : Transportmittel
    NW 2708 : Vereinigte Staaten (USA)
  • Keywords: USA > Kraftfahrzeugindustrie
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Developed from author's dissertation for the Hagley Program in the History of Industrialization, University of Delaware
  • Description: The problem with chauffeur-mechanics -- Ad hoc mechanics -- Creating new mechanics -- The automobile in public education -- Tinkering with sociotechnical hierarchies -- Suburban paradox : maintaining automobility in the postwar decades -- "Check engine" : technology of distrust

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