The Automobile Age
The Automobile Age
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汽车时代
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1989
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J. J. Flink
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Joseph J. Corn;J. J. Flink
汽车时代已经结束，随之而来的是由道路和汽车的影响带来的社会和经济变革的非凡时代。在这段全面的文化历史中，詹姆斯·弗林克 (James Flink) 观察到，到 20 世纪 70 年代初，汽车已不再是美国变革的力量。 “《汽车时代》扩展了 Flink 之前的书籍《汽车文化》和《美国采用汽车》中提出的想法，对汽车行业及其对社会的影响进行了引人入胜且全面的描述。”《汽车时代》既是对汽车技术和汽车行业发展的批判性调查，也是对“汽车”对工人和消费者的社会影响的分析。重点是美国这个世界上最重要的汽车文化，并分析世界其他地区的发展以阐明美国的经验。弗林克指出，尽管大众个人汽车在下个世纪仍将是主要的交通方式，但汽车和道路对社会及其文化的影响永远不会像过去半个世纪在美国那样巨大。这项广泛的研究涵盖了世界上第一个汽车文化所催生的大量主题：机动车辆的技术演变，重点是乘用车；大规模生产技术的引进和完善及其对工人和劳资关系的影响；该行业发展中的商业组织和营销策略以及汽车大众市场的增长；社会和经济条件以及公共政策决策在当今汽车文化的创建以及公共交通的同时衰落中所发挥的作用；最后，大众个人汽车改变了美国人的生活。詹姆斯·J·弗林克 (James J. Flink) 是加州大学欧文分校比较文化教授，隶属于该校交通研究所。
The automobile age has ended, and with it an extraordinary era of social and economic change brought on by the impact of the road and the car. In this sweeping cultural history, James Flink observes that by the early 1970s the automobile had ceased to be a force for change in America. "The Automobile Age expands on ideas developed in Flink's previous books, "The Car Culture and "America Adopts the Automobile, to provide a fascinating and comprehensive account of the automobile industry and its impact on a society."The Automobile Age is at once a critical survey of the development of automotive technology and the automotive industry and an analysis of the social effects of "automobility" on both workers and consumers. Emphasis is on the United States, the world's foremost automobile culture, with developments in the rest of the world analyzed to illuminate the American experience. Flink notes that although mass personal automobility will remain the dominant mode of transportation for as far into the next century as we can see, the impact of the car and the road on a society and its culture will never be so great as it was in America for the past half century.A wealth of topics spawned by the world's first automobile culture is covered in this extensive study: the technological evolution of the motor vehicle, focusing on the passenger car; the introduction and refinement of mass-production techniques and their impact on workers and labor-management relations; the developing business organization and marketing strategies-of the industry and the growth of a mass market for cars; the roles played by social and economic conditions - and public-policy decisions - in the creation of today's carculture and the concurrent decline in mass transit; and finally, the transformation of American life by mass personal automobility.James J. Flink is Professor of Comparative Culture at the University of California, Irvine, and is affiliated with its Institute of Transportation Studies.