Manufacturing Mennonites : work and religion in post-war Manitoba / Janis Thiessen.
Series: Canadian social history seriesPublisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (x, 249 pages, 5 unnumbered pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781442660595 (electronic bk.)
- 1442660597 (electronic bk.)
- Mennonites -- Manitoba -- History -- 20th century
- Work -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites
- Economics -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites
- Christian sociology -- Mennonites
- Mennonites -- Manitoba -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Travail -- Aspect religieux -- Mennonites
- Économie politique -- Aspect religieux -- Mennonites
- Sociologie religieuse -- Mennonites
- RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations
- 289.7/7127 23
- BX8128.E36 T55 2013eb
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.
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