'Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre': Assembling and governing the motorway driver in late 1950s Britain

Sociological Review

Volumn 54, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages 75-92

  Merriman, Peter ^a  

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EID: 33748772789     PISSN: 00380261     EISSN: 1467954X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2006.00638.x     Document Type: Review

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