Thrift : the history of an American cultural movement
Andrew L. Yarrow
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2014.
- 209 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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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