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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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Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 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.
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Subject Saving and investment -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Social values -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Social movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Thriftiness -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
Saving and investment -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01105976
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Social movements. (OCoLC)fst01122657
Social values. (OCoLC)fst01123424
Thriftiness. (OCoLC)fst01746930
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Yarrow, Andrew L. Thrift. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014 (DLC) 2014021803
ISBN 9781613763483 (electronic bk.)
1613763484 (electronic bk.)
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