Hobbies : leisure and the culture of work in America / Steven M. Gelber
Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, 1999
Descript
xi, 374 p. ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Occupations for free time -- Collecting -- Collectible object -- Collectors -- Constructing a collector's market -- Deconstructing a collector's market -- Handicrafts -- Crafts, tools, and gender in the nineteenth century -- Expanding the boundaries of crafts -- Home crafts in hard times -- Kits: assembly as craft -- Do-it-yourself: expected leisure
SUBJECT
Hobbies -- Social aspects -- United States
Leisure -- Social aspects -- United States
Hobbies -- United States -- History
Industries -- Social aspects -- United States -- History