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Thrift : the history of an American cultural movement
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- Creator
- Andrew L. Yarrow
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2014]
- Physical Details
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- ix, 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781625341327, 9781613763483, 1625341326, 9781625341310, 1613763484, 1625341318
- OCLC
- ocn880861073, ocn933516709
- Includes bibliographical references 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
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.