Bibliography for
Automobile Engineering last updated January 31, 2000 |
Thomas J. Misa
Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN 55455 |
Table of Contents
Early History (to
1945)
Recent History (from 1945) The Car and the City Ford and Fordism |
See also IIT titles on technological systems, iron and steel, History of Engineering, |
Boyd, Thomas Alvin. 1957. Professional amateur: the biography of Charles Franklin Kettering. New York: Dutton. [see Leslie 1983 first] GALVIN
Bryant, L. 1966. "The Silent Otto." Technology & Culture 7: 184-200. GALVIN
Chandler, Alfred Dupont (ed.). 1964. Giant Enterprise: Ford, General Motors, and the automobile industry. New York: Harcourt Brace & World. GALVIN
Diesel, Eugen, et al. 1960. From Engines to Autos: Five Pioneers. Chicago: Regnery. [European inventors of internal-combustion engines and cars--the roots of Mercedes-Benz]
Doolittle, James Rood (ed.). 1916. The romance of the automobile industry: being the story of its development, its contribution to health and prosperity,its influence on eugenics, its effect on personal efficiency, and its service and mission to humanity as the latest and greatest phase of transportation. New York: Klebold Press. GALVIN
Flink, James J. 1970. America adopts the automobile, 1895-1910. Cambridge: MIT Press. GALVIN
Flink, James J. 1975. The car culture. Cambridge: MIT Press. GALVIN
Flink, James J. 1988. The Automobile Age. Cambridge: MIT Press. GALVIN
Gartman, David. 1986. Auto slavery: the labor process in the American automobile industry, 1897-1950. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press
Gartman, David. 1994. Auto-Opium: A Social History of American Automobile Design. New York and London, Routledge.
General Motors Corporation. 1941. Research, science and the motor car. Detroit, Mich., General Motors Corporation. [a collection of eleven booklets regularly published separately, dealing with various phases of the automobile]GALVIN
Gott, Philip G. 1991. Changing Gears: The Development of the Automotive Transmission. Warrendale, Pa.: Society of Automotive Engineers.
Hounshell, David A. 1984. From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins. GALVIN[see chapter 6 on Ford Motor Company and mass production]
Kline, Ronald and Trevor Pinch. 1996. "Users as agents of technological change: The social construction of the automobile in the rural United States." Technology and Culture 37: 763-795. GALVIN
Leslie, Stuart W. 1983. Boss Kettering. NY: Columbia. GALVIN[first-rate biography of GM's chief engineer, Charles F. Kettering]
Ling, Peter J. 1990. America and the Automobile: Technology, Reform and Social Change. New York: St. Martin's Press.
May, George S. (ed.). 1989. The Automobile Industry, 1920-1980. New York: Facts on File. Encyclopedia of American business history and biography. GALVIN
May, George S. (ed.). 1990. The Automotive Industry, 1896-1920. New York, Facts on File/Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography.
May, George S. 1974. A most unique machine; the Michigan origins of the American automobile industry. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. GALVIN
May, George S. 1977. R. E. Olds, auto industry pioneer. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. GALVIN
McShane, Clay. 1994. Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. <see Misa>
Misa, Thomas J. 1995. A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865-1925. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins. GALVIN[see chapter 6 'The Imperative of Automobiles' for founding of SAE, innovations of alloy-, sheet-, and electric-furnace steels]
Rae, John Bell. 1965. The American automobile: a brief history. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. GALVIN
Scharff, Virginia. 1991. Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age. New York, Free Press. GALVIN
Schiffer, Michael Brian. 1994. Taking Charge: The Electric Automobile in America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. GALVIN
Seely, Bruce E. 1987. Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. GALVIN
Thomas, Donald E. 1987. Diesel: Technology and Society in
Industrial
Germany. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. GALVIN
Birsch, Douglas, and John H. Fielder. The Ford Pinto
case:
a study in applied ethics,
business, and technology. Albany, NY : State
University
of New York Press, 1994. Location: IIT's
CSEP Library
HF5387.F671994
Cusumano, Michael A. 1985. The Japanese automobile industry: technology and management at Nissan and Toyota. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. GALVIN
Flink, James J. 1988. The Automobile Age. Cambridge: MIT Press. GALVIN
May, George S. (ed.). 1989. The Automobile Industry, 1920-1980. New York: Facts on File. Encyclopedia of American business history and biography. GALVIN
Nader, Ralph. 1965. Unsafe at any speed: the designed-in dangers of the American automobile. New York: Grossman. GALVIN
Post, Robert C. 1994. High Performance: The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing, 1950-1990. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins. GALVIN
Seely, Bruce E. 1987. Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. GALVIN
Womack, James P. et al. 1990. The Machine That Changed the World. New York: Rawson Associates. [Based on a five-year study on the "Future of the Automobile" at M.I.T.] GALVIN
Zeitlin, Jonathan. 1991. Between Fordism and Flexibility: The
Automobile
Industry and Its Workers. New York and Oxford: Berg.
Bottles, Scott L. 1987. Los Angeles and the automobile: the making of the modern city. Berkeley: University of California Press. GALVIN
Foster, Mark S. 1981. From streetcar to superhighway: American city planners and urban transportation, 1900-1940. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. GALVIN
Preston, Howard L. 1979. Automobile age Atlanta: the making of a southern metropolis, 1900-1935. Athens: University of Georgia Press. GALVIN
Wachs, Martin (ed.). 1994. The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment, and Daily Urban Life. Ann Arbor: Univ. Michigan Press. GALVIN
[Contents: Wachs, Martin / . Crawford, Margaret / Introduction: The Car and the City. Warner, Sam Bass, Jr. / Learning from the Past: Services to Families. Jackson, John B. / Truck City. Corn, Joseph J. / Work and Vehicles: A Comment and Note. Rosenbloom, Sandra / Why Working Families Need a Car. Berger, Michael L. / The Car's Impact on the American Family. Scharff, Virginia / Gender, Electricity, and Automobility. Wachs, Martin / Men, Women, and Urban Travel: The Persistence of Separate Spheres. Gebhard, David / The Suburban House and the Automobile. Buckley, Drummond / A Garage in the House. Longstreth, Richard / The Perils of a Parkless Town. Flink, James J. / The Ultimate Status Symbol: The Custom Coachbuilt Car in the Interwar Period. Hess, Alan / Styling the Strip: Car and Roadside Design in the 1950s. Foster, Mark S. / The Role of the Automobile in Shaping a Unique City: Another Look. Bottles, Scott L. / Mass Politics and the Adoption of the Automobile in Los Angeles. Morales, Rebecca / Place and Auto Manufacture in the Post-Fordist Era. Crawford, Margaret / The Fifth Ecology: Fantasy, the Automobile, and Los Angeles. Novaco, Raymond W. / Automobile Driving and Aggressive Behavior. Myers, Barton / . Dale, John / Designing in Car-Oriented Cities: An Argument for Episodic Urban Congestion. Webber, Melvin M. / The Joys of Automobility. Adelson, Marvin / The Car, the City, and What We Want.]
Bucci, Federico. Albert Kahn: Architect of Ford. New York, N.Y. : Princeton Architectural Press, c1993. GALVIN Location: ARCHITECTURE NA737.K28B83131993
Chinoy, Ely. 1955. Automobile workers and the American dream. Garden City: Doubleday. GALVIN
Edsforth, Ronald. 1987. Class conflict and cultural consensus: the making of a mass consumer society in Flint, Michigan. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Jardim, Anne. The first Henry Ford: a study in personality and business leadership. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970. GALVIN
Lacey, Robert. Ford, the men and the machine. Boston: Little, Brown, 1986. GALVIN
Lewis, David Lanier. The public image of Henry Ford: an
American
folk hero
and his company. Detroit: Wayne State University
Press,
1976. GALVIN
Linhart, Robert. 1981. The assembly line; translated by Margaret Crosland. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press. [Automobile industry workers--France--Case studies.] GALVIN
Meyer, Stephen. The five dollar day: Labor, management, and socialcontrol in the Ford Motor Company, 1908-1921. Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 1981. [Ford's snooping-squad in the Sociological Department that vetted workers for the $5 wage.] GALVIN
Nevins, Allan and Frank Ernest Hill (et al.) Ford. New York: Scribner, 1954-63. 3 volumes. [The standard biography of Ford] GALVIN
1. The times, the man, the company.Walker, Charles Rumford. 1952. The man on the assembly line. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. GALVIN
2. Expansion and challenge, 1915-1933
3. Decline and rebirth, 1933-1962
Widick, B. J. 1976. Auto work and its discontents. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. GALVIN
Zeitlin, Jonathan. 1991. Between Fordism and Flexibility: The Automobile Industry and Its Workers. New York and Oxford: Berg.