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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: 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:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442660595
  • 1442660597
  • 9781442690332
  • 144269033X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Manufacturing MennonitesDDC classification:
  • 289.7/7127 23
LOC classification:
  • BX8128.E36 T55 2013eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)682777

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.

Print version record.

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.