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Kniha Auto Mechanics Kevin L. Borg

Auto Mechanics

Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America

Autor: Kevin L. Borg
Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Brožovaná
Vydavateľ: Johns Hopkins University Press
Dostupnosť: Skladom u dodávateľa
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39.62 €
The history of automobiles is not just the story of invention, manufacturing, and marketing; it is a...

Informácie o knihe

Autor
Kevin L. Borg
Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydalo
2010
Stránok
280
EAN
9780801894855
ISBN
0801894859
Enbook ID
04710328
Vydavateľ
Johns Hopkins University Press
Hmotnosť
430
Rozmery
227 x 153 x 23

Kompletný popis

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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