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Thrift : the history of an American cultural movement /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yarrow, Andrew L.
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2014]
Subjects:
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.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.