Breadcrumbs and banana skins : the birth of thrift
Percival, Jacqueline2010
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This text surveys the range of money-saving and thrifty living advice offered to housewives in the years before the Second World War, from strict budgeting to penny capitalism, and demonstrates that the practice of thrift was entrenched in the national consciousness before the war years.
Main title:
Breadcrumbs and banana skins : the birth of thrift / Jacqueline Percival.
Author:
Imprint:
Stroud : History, 2010.
Collation:
143 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780752457819 (pbk)
Local class:
640.941
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
35527