Auto Mechanics : Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Borg, Kevin L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Automobiles > United States > Maintenance and repair.
Automobile mechanics > United States.
Automobile industry and trade > Social aspects > United States.
Automobile repair shops > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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