Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century AmericaJHU Press, 2007 - 249 páginas 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. |
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... Maintenance and repair . I. Title . TL153.B667 2007 338.4'762928720973 - dc22 2006030071 A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library . Acknowledgments vii Introduction Technology's Middle Ground I The Problem with.
... Problem with Chauffeur - Mechanics 13 2 Ad Hoc Mechanics 31 3 Creating New Mechanics 53 76 99 4 The Automobile in Public Education 5 Tinkering with Sociotechnical Hierarchies 6 Suburban Paradox : Maintaining Automobility in the Postwar ...
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