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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.

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.

ISBN: 9781442660595 1442660597 9781442690332 144269033X

Source: 22573/ctt56zfb JSTOR

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mennonites--History--Manitoba--20th century.
Work--Religious aspects--Mennonites.
Economics--Religious aspects--Mennonites.
Christian sociology--Mennonites.
Labor--Religious aspects--Mennonites.
Mennonites--Histoire--Manitoba--20e siècle.
Travail--Aspect religieux--Mennonites.
Économie politique--Aspect religieux--Mennonites.
Sociologie religieuse--Mennonites.
RELIGION--Christianity--Denominations.
HISTORY--General.--Canada
Labor--Religious aspects--Mennonites
Work--Religious aspects--Mennonites
Christian sociology--Mennonites
Economics--Religious aspects--Mennonites
Mennonites

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Manitoba

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
History

LC Class. No.: BX8128.E36 / T55 2013eb

Dewey Class. No.: 289.7/7127