Work, play, and power: Masculine culture on the automotive Shop F1. oor, 1930-1960

Boys and their Toys: Masculinity, Class and Technology in America

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 13-32

  Meyer, Srephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE   (United States)

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