| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 249 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Studies in industry and society |
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Studies in industry and society
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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 |
| Summary |
"Kevin L. Borg's study spans a century of automotive technology - from the horseless carriage of the late nineteenth century to the "check engine" light of the late twentieth. Drawing from a diverse body of source material, Borg explores how the mechanic's occupation formed and evolved within the context of broad American fault lines of class, race, and gender and how vocational education entwined these tensions around the mechanic's unique expertise. He further shows how aspects of the consumer rights and environmental movements, as well as the design of automotive electronics, reflected and challenged the social identity and expertise of the mechanic."--Jacket |
| Notes |
Developed from author's dissertation for the Hagley Program in the History of Industrialization, University of Delaware |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-242) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Automobile repair shops -- United States
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Automobile industry and trade -- Social aspects -- United States
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Automobile mechanics -- United States
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Automobiles -- United States -- Maintenance and repair
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Service.
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Automobile industry and trade -- Social aspects
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Automobile mechanics
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Automobile repair shops
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Automobiles -- Maintenance and repair
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780801893261 |
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0801893267 |
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9780801894855 |
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0801894859 |
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