Title Auto mechanics : technology and expertise in twentieth-century America / Kevin L. Borg.

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 249 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Studies in industry and society
	Studies in industry and society.
Note	Developed from author's dissertation for the Hagley Program in the History of Industrialization, University of Delaware.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-242) and index.
Contents	The problem with chauffeur-mechanics -- Ad hoc mechanics -- Creating new mechanics -- The automobile in public education -- Tinkering with sociotechnical hierarchies -- Suburban paradox : maintaining automobility in the postwar decades -- "Check engine" : technology of distrust.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Automobile repair shops -- United States.
	Automobile repair shops.
	United States.
	Automobile industry and trade -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Automobile industry and trade -- Social aspects.
	Automobile industry and trade.
	Automobile mechanics -- United States.
	Automobile mechanics.
	Automobiles -- United States -- Maintenance and repair.
	Automobiles.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Borg, Kevin L. Auto mechanics. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 9780801894855 (DLC) 2006030071 (OCoLC)71369105
ISBN	9780801893261 (electronic book)
	0801893267 (electronic book)
	9780801886065 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
	0801886066 (hardback ; alkaline paper)