Auto mechanics technology and expertise in twentieth-century America - Borg, Kevin L.; ebrary, Inc. (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)
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.
Developed from author's dissertation for the Hagley Program in the History of Industrialization, University of Delaware.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-242) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Automobile repair shops -- United States; Automobile industry and trade -- Social aspects -- United States; Automobile mechanics -- United States; Automobiles -- United States -- Maintenance and repair; Electronic books