Thiessen, Janis, 1971-

Manufacturing Mennonites : work and religion in post-war Manitoba / Janis Thiessen. - 1 online resource (x, 249 pages, 5 unnumbered pages) : illustrations. - Canadian social history series . - Canadian social history series. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-240) and index.

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.

9781442660595 (electronic bk.) 1442660597 (electronic bk.)


Mennonites--History--Manitoba--20th century.
Work--Religious aspects--Mennonites.
Economics--Religious aspects--Mennonites.
Christian sociology--Mennonites.
Mennonites--Histoire--Manitoba--20e siècle.
Travail--Aspect religieux--Mennonites.
Économie politique--Aspect religieux--Mennonites.
Sociologie religieuse--Mennonites.
RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations


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