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Author Thiessen, Janis, 1971-

Title Manufacturing Mennonites : work and religion in post-war Manitoba / Janis Thiessen
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 249 pages, 5 unnumbered pages) : illustrations
Series Canadian social history series
Canadian social history series.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-240) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mennonites -- Manitoba -- History -- 20th century
Work -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites.
Economics -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites.
Christian sociology -- Mennonites.
Labor -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Denominations.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Labor -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites
Work -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites
Christian sociology -- Mennonites
Economics -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites
Mennonites
Manitoba
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442660595
1442660597
9781442690332
144269033X