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Thrift the history of an American cultural movement

Title: Thrift [electronic resource] : the history of an American cultural movement / Andrew L. Yarrow.
Author: Yarrow, Andrew L.
Publication: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2014].

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Description

1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations.

Uniform Title

Thrift (Online)

Alternative Title

Thrift (Online)

Subject

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 > History > United States > 20th century
United States > Economic conditions > 20th century
United States > Social conditions > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-197) and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

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