Auto Mechanics
Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America
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2007
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-8606-5 (ISBN)
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-8606-5 (ISBN)
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The history of automobiles is not just the story of invention, manufacturing, and marketing; it is also a story of repair. Auto Mechanics opens the repair shop to historical study-for the first time-by tracing the emergence of a dirty, difficult, and important profession. 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. In the history of the American auto mechanic, Borg finds the origins of a persistent anxiety that even today accompanies the prospect of taking one's car in for repair.
Kevin L. Borg is an associate professor of history at James Madison University.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Technology's Middle Ground
1. The Problem with Chauffeur-Mechanics
2. Ad Hoc Mechanics
3. Creating New Mechanics
4. The Automobile in Public Education
5. Tinkering with Sociotechnical Hierarchies
6. Suburban Paradox: Maintaining Automobility in the Postwar Decades
7. "Check Engine": Technology of Distrust
Conclusion: Servants or Savants? Revaluing the Middle Ground
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.7.2007 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Industry and Society |
| Zusatzinfo | 32 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 544 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
| Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8018-8606-6 / 0801886066 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-8606-5 / 9780801886065 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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