Auto mechanics : technology and expertise in twentieth-century America /

Main Author: Borg, Kevin L.
Format: Book
Published: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
Series:Studies in industry and society
Subjects:
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.