Hobbies: Leisure and the Culture of Work in America

Steven M. Gelber

Preface

Introduction: Context and Theory

Section 1: Hobbies as a Category

1: Occupations for Free Time

Section 2: Collecting

2: The Collectible Object

3: Collectors

4: Constructing a Collector's Market

5: Deconstructing a Collector's Market

Section 3: Handicrafts

6: Crafts, by Tools, and Gender in the Nineteenth Century

7: Expanding the Boundaries of Crafts

8: Home Crafts in Hard Times

9: Kits: Assembly as Craft

10: Do-It-Yourself: Expected Leisure

Conclusion

Index

Related Subjects

• Popular Culture

About the Author

Stephen Gelber is professor of history and chair of the History Department at Santa Clara University. He is the author of Black Men and Businessmen: The Growing Awareness of a Social Responsibility and Saving the Earth: The History of a Middle-Class Millenarian Movement.

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