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Auto mechanics technology and expertise in twentieth-century America /

Main Author: Borg, Kevin L.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Series:Studies in industry and society
Subjects:
Automobile repair shops > United States.
Automobile industry and trade > Social aspects > United States.
Automobile mechanics > United States.
Automobiles > Maintenance and repair. > United States
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10363205
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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