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Design Introduction

• Automotive Oral Histories
• A History of Scholarship on American Automobile Design
  • Introduction
  • Scholarly Inattention to Auto Design
  • Emergence of a Critical Popular Literature
  • 1950s Scholarship on Design
  • The Postmodern Validation of Auto Design as Art
  • Auto Design as Mass Culture, Influenced by Societal Change
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Complete Text/Printable View
  • Student & Teacher Resources
• Tough Guys and Pretty Boys
  • Introduction
  • The Utilitarian Vision of Henry Ford
  • General Motors Style Overtakes Ford Efficiency
  • The Changing American Character
  • The Struggle for Styling in the Early Industry
  • The Depression Era Battle for Streamlining
  • The Triumph of Stylists in the 1950s
  • Contradictions of Fantastic Styling and the Stylists' Fall From Grace
  • Stylists Fight Back with "AERO"
  • Postindustrial Lifestyle Cars & The New Balance of Power Between Engineers and Designers
  • Complete Text/Printable View
  • Student & Teacher Resources

Environment Introduction

• The Automobile and the Environment in American History
  • Introduction
  • Environmental Cost of the Automobile Production Process
  • Energy Use and the Internal Combustion Engine
  • Auto Emissions and Air Pollution
  • Noise, Visual Pollution, and Derelict Cars
  • The Automobile's Imprint on the Landscape
  • Suburbanization and the Automobile
  • Conclusion
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Complete Text/Printable View
  • Student & Teacher Resources
• The Automobile Shapes the City
  • Introduction
  • The "Footprint" of the Automobile on the American City
  • From "Walking Cities" to "Automobile Cities"
  • Modifying the City Core
  • Traffic and Congestion
  • Parking
  • Traffic Control
  • Filling Stations and Other Services
  • Automobiles and Sprawl
  • Expressways, Freeways, and Superhighways
  • Roadside Business
  • Suburban Communities
  • Complete Text/Printable View
  • Student & Teacher Resources

Gender Introduction

• Gender and the Automobile in the United States
  • Placing Gender and Automobiles into Perspective
  • Gender and Automobility: The Pioneering and Early Years
  • Gender and Automobility: Consumerism and the Great Economic Boom
  • Gender and Automobility: Sexual Equality in Modern Times
  • Gender on the Line
  • Conclusion
  • Critical Bibliography
  • Full Bibliography
  • Complete Text/Printable View
  • Student & Teacher Resources
• Femininity and the Electric Car
  • Early Automobiles and "Separate Spheres"
  • The Electric Car as a "Woman's" Vehicle
  • Women Reject the Electric Car
  • Complete Text/Printable View
  • Student & Teacher Resources

Labor Introduction

• The Degradation of Work Revisited
  • Introduction
  • Labor in the Craft System
  • Labor Under Mass Production Ford and the Fiver Follar Day
  • More of the Same: The Rise of Sloanism and Flexible Mass Production
  • Men at Work? Masculinity and Mass Production in the 1920s and 1930s
  • The Rise of the Unions and the Effects of World War II
  • Labor and the Post-War Automation Movement
  • The "Blue Collar Blues" of the 1970s
  • Work under "Lean" Production
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Complete Text/Printable View
  • Student & Teacher Resources
• An Economic 'Frankenstein'
  • Introduction
  • Automation's Effect on the Brook Park Workforce
  • Ford Embraces Automation at Brook Park
  • The UAW Responds
  • Negoiating Job Classifications and Pay Rates at Brook Park
  • Worker Absenteeism and Grievances
  • Wildcat Strikes
  • Conclusion
  • Complete Text/Printable View
  • Student & Teacher Resources

Race Introduction

• From Motor City to Motor Metropolis
  • Becoming the Motor City: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Auto Industry
  • Living in the Motor City: Autoworkers, Race, and Urban Geography
  • Building the Motor Metropolis: Automobiles, Highways, and Sprawl
  • Moving Out: Decentralization and the Decline of Urban Factories
  • Downsizing: Depopulation, Disinvestment, and the Fate of the City
  • Bibliography
  • Complete Text/Printable View
  • Student & Teacher Resources
• Driving While Black
  • Introduction
  • The Car and Jim Crow
  • "Drivin' Down the Freeway": Blacks and Car Culture
  • Image Versus Reality
  • On the Line: Blacks and Auto Work
  • For Futher Reading
  • Complete Text/Printable View
  • Student & Teacher Resources

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• The Degradation of Work
• An Economic 'Frankenstein'
• Gender and the Automobile in the United States
• Femininity and the Electric Car
• From Motor City to Motor Metropolis
• Driving While Black
• Automotive Oral Histories
• A History of Scholarship on the American Automobile Design
• Tough Guys and Pretty Boys
• The Automible and the Environment in American History
• The Automobile Shapes the City

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