The social construction of compatibility: setting voluntary safety standards for agricultural tractors

This dissertation concerns the ways engineers and safety specialists acting as part-time volunteers cooperate in the setting of voluntary industrywide product safety standards in the farm equipment industry. These cooperative efforts are based, I contend, on collective investment criteria shared by...

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Main Author: Balderrama, Rafael J.
Other Authors: Science and Technology Studies
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40007
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10192006-115616/