Manufacturing Mennonites : : Work and Religion in Post-War Manitoba / / Janis Lee Thiessen.
Manufacturing Mennonites examines the efforts of Mennonite intellectuals and business leaders to redefine the group's ethno-religious identity in response to changing economic and social conditions after 1945. As the industrial workplace was one of the most significant venues in which competing...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Canadian Social History Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 9 illustrations; 18 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index