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Cars Break Down.(Column)
Byline: Steve Thompson
The best books are the ones you keep reaching for in your library but they aren't there. Usually, that's because either (a) you lent them to someone, or (b) they haven't been published yet. I've always wanted to read a history of automobile mechanics. Finally, Kevin L. Borg, a history professor at James Madison University and a former mechanic himself, has filled my empty shelf space with his Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America (Johns Hopkins University Press, www.press.jhu.edu).
As Borg points out, most people seem to think that automobile mechanics just sort of appeared once cars showed up alongside horse-drawn hardware on the roads. Nope. The real story is the starting point of this book, which Borg developed from his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Delaware's Hagley Program in the History of Industrialization.
Borg begins his study by writing, "Cars break down. They always have.'' Along the way, he examines what that has meant to everyone and why it has been so. He carefully explores the "too-easy distinctions that our culture has created between manual and mental work, between `skill' and `intelligence,''' and explains why such distinctions are ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Cars Break Down.(Column)