TY - BOOK AU - Yarrow,Andrew L. TI - Thrift: the history of an American cultural movement SN - 9781625341327 (paperback : alkaline paper) AV - HG179 .Y35 2014 U1 - 339.4/30973 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Amherst PB - University of Massachusetts Press KW - Thriftiness KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Social movements KW - Social values KW - Saving and investment KW - Social aspects KW - Economic conditions KW - Social conditions N1 - 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 ER -