Auto mechanics : technology and expertise in twentieth-century America /
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Studies in industry and society.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
| 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 |
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| Item Description: | Developed from author's dissertation for the Hagley Program in the History of Industrialization, University of Delaware. Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 249 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-242) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780801893261 0801893267 9780801894855 0801894859 |
