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Manufacturing Mennonites : Work and Religion in Post-War Manitoba / Janis Lee Thiessen.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thiessen, Janis Lee, author.
- Series:
- Canadian social history series.
- Canadian Social History Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mennonites--Manitoba--History--20th century.
- Mennonites.
- Work--Religious aspects--Mennonites.
- Work.
- Economics--Religious aspects--Mennonites.
- Economics.
- Christian sociology--Mennonites.
- Christian sociology.
- Manitoba.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Complemented with interviews with workers, managers, and business owners, Manufacturing Mennonites pioneers two important new trajectories for scholarship - how religion can affect business history, and how class relations have influenced religious history.
- Contents:
- The Mennonite intellectual elite : yieldedness, non-resistance, and neighbourly love
- The Mennonite workplace : Loewen Windows, Friesen Printers, and Palliser Furniture
- Mennonite corporate mythology : the 'reflections' campaign
- 'You had to know everything ; otherwise, you weren't fit' : worker experience and identity
- Unequally yoked : Manitoba Mennonites and the Schreyer government
- 'No one is always happy with his environment' : union drives and corporate responses.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-240) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)
- ISBN:
- 9781442690332
- 144269033X
- 9781442660595
- 1442660597
- OCLC:
- 852803493
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