Quakers, Business, and Industry - Angell, Stephen W
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Quakers, Business and Industry is Volume 4 of the Friends Association for Higher Education's "Quakers & the Disciplines" series. This books focuses on the much vaunted reputation of Quakers in business and industry. It interrogates some of the myths about Quaker success and their reasons for engaging in commerce, offers case studies of key areas of business, and highlights some of the pioneers of industry. This volume also helps theorise key Quaker understandings of wealth-creation and explores some of the shifting patterns and possibilities that have emerged in the last century and a half.…mehr

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Quakers, Business and Industry is Volume 4 of the Friends Association for Higher Education's "Quakers & the Disciplines" series. This books focuses on the much vaunted reputation of Quakers in business and industry. It interrogates some of the myths about Quaker success and their reasons for engaging in commerce, offers case studies of key areas of business, and highlights some of the pioneers of industry. This volume also helps theorise key Quaker understandings of wealth-creation and explores some of the shifting patterns and possibilities that have emerged in the last century and a half. Royalties from Quakers, Business and Industry (Q&D 4), Quakers and Literature (Q&D 3), Befriending Truth (Q&D 2), Quaker Perspectives in Higher Education (Q&D 1), and all other books in the "Quakers & the Disciplines" series, will accrue to support the Friends Association for Higher Education's ongoing publishing efforts.
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Stephen W. Angell is Leatherock Professor of Quaker Studies at the Earlham School of Religion. His books include (with Pink Dandelion) The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies (OUP, 2013) and Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights (with Harold D. Weaver, Jr., and Paul Kriese) (Quaker Press of FGC, 2011). He is Associate Editor of Quaker Studies, and of Quaker Theology, and he has published extensively in the areas of Quaker Studies and African American Religious Studies. Pink Dandelion directs the work of the Centre for Research in Quaker Studies, Woodbrooke and is Professor of Quaker Studies at the University of Birmingham and a Research Fellow at Lancaster University. He edits Quaker Studies and convenes the Quaker Studies Research Association. His books include (with Stephen Angell) Early Quakers and their Theological Thought (CUP 2015), (with Stephen Angell) The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies (OUP, 2013), (with Peter Collins) The Quaker Condition (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), The Quakers: a very short introduction (OUP, 2008), (with Jackie Leach Scully) Good and Evil: Quaker perspectives (Ashgate, 2007), Introduction to Quakerism (CUP, 2007), The Liturgies of Quakerism (Ashgate, 2005), The Creation of Quaker Theory (Ashgate, 2004), the multi-authored Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope (Ashgate, 2004) and The Sociological Analysis of the Theology of Quakers: the silent revolution (Edwin Mellen Press, 1996).