Auto mechanics [electronic resource] : technology and expertise in twentieth-century America / Kevin L. Borg.
Series: Studies in industry and societyPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.Description: viii, 249 p., [16] p. of plates : illISBN:- 9780801886065 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 0801886066 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 338.4/762928720973 22
- TL153 .B667 2007eb

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.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.