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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1. Verfasser: Borg, Kevin L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Schriftenreihe:Studies in industry and society.
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Beschreibung:Developed from author's dissertation for the Hagley Program in the History of Industrialization, University of Delaware.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 249 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Format: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.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-242) and index.
ISBN:9780801893261
0801893267
9780801894855
0801894859

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