Manufacturing Mennonites : work and religion in post-war Manitoba /

Show other versions (1)

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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thiessen, Janis, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
Series:Canadian social history series.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Mennonites > Manitoba > History > 20th century.
Work > Religious aspects > Mennonites.
Economics > Religious aspects > Mennonites.
Christian sociology > Mennonites.
Labor > Religious aspects > Mennonites.
Mennonites > Manitoba > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Travail > Aspect religieux > Mennonites.
Économie politique > Aspect religieux > Mennonites.
Sociologie religieuse > Mennonites.
RELIGION > Christianity > Denominations.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Mennonites.
Manitoba.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

Similar Items