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.