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Author Yarrow, Andrew L.

Title Thrift : the history of an American cultural movement / Andrew L. Yarrow.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2014].

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  339.4309 YARROW    Check Shelf
Description 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-197) and index.
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.
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 -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Economic history.
Social history.
ISBN 9781625341327 (paperback : alkaline paper)
1625341326 (paperback : alkaline paper)
9781625341310 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
1625341318 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
Standard No. 40024709154
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