Introduction: Context and Theory -- Hobbies as a Category -- Occupations for Free Time -- Collecting -- The 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.