Janis Lee Thiessen

Manufacturing Mennonites (eBook, PDF)

Work and Religion in Post-War Manitoba

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

ThiessenJanis Lee :

Janis Thiessen is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Winnipeg.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442690332
• Artikelnr.: 48945583

Autorenporträt

Janis Thiessen is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Winnipeg.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Mennonite Intellectual Elite: Yieldedness, Non-resistance, and
Neighbourly Love
2. The Mennonite Workplace: Loewen Windows, Friesen Printers, and Palliser
Furniture
3. Mennonite Corporate Mythology: The ‘Reflections’ Campaign
4. ‘You Had to Know Everything; Otherwise, You Weren’t Fit’: Worker
Experience and Identity
5. Unequally Yoked: Manitoba Mennonites and the Schreyer Government
6. ‘No One Is Always Happy with His Environment’: Union Drives and
Corporate Responses
Conclusion