Thrift : the history of an American cultural movement / Andrew L. Yarrow.
Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2014]Description: 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781625341327 (paperback : alkaline paper)
- 9781625341310 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
- Thriftiness -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Social movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Social values -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Saving and investment -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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- HG179 .Y35 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-197) and index.
Prelude -- The early twentieth-century American thrift movement -- Precursors of a movement -- Thrift's heyday, 1910s/1930 -- Teaching thrift in the schools -- The philosophy of thrift -- National Thrift Week -- Allies and strange bedfellows -- The international dimension -- The decline of thrift -- From thrift to sustainability.
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