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Author Thiessen, Janis, 1971-

Title Manufacturing Mennonites : work and religion in post-war Manitoba / Janis Thiessen.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 249 pages, 5 unnumbered pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Canadian social history series
Canadian social history series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-240) and index.
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.
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Subject Mennonites -- Manitoba -- History -- 20th century.
Mennonites.
Manitoba.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Work -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites.
Work -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites.
Economics -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites.
Economics -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites.
Christian sociology -- Mennonites.
Christian sociology -- Mennonites.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Thiessen, Janis, 1971- Manufacturing Mennonites 9781442642133 (DLC) 2012533765 (OCoLC)816826418
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