Thrift
Subtitle: the history of an American cultural movement
By: Andrew L. Yarrow
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781625341327; 9781625341310
Subjects: Social values; Economic conditions; Saving and investment; Social conditions; Thriftiness; Social movements; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-197) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude; title: The early twentieth-century American thrift movement; title: Precursors of a movement; title: Thrift's heyday, 1910s/1930; title: Teaching thrift in the schools; title: The philosophy of thrift; title: National Thrift Week; title: Allies and strange bedfellows; title: The international dimension; title: The decline of thrift; title: From thrift to sustainability.