AuthorGelber, Steven M.
TitleHobbies : 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

  1. Hobbies -- Social aspects -- United States
  2. Leisure -- Social aspects -- United States
  3. Hobbies -- United States -- History
  4. Industries -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
  5. Social change -- United States

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