Manufacturing Mennonites - Work and Religion in Post-War Manitoba

Informationen zum Autor Janis Thiessen is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Winnipeg. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Not Available, Janis Thiessen, Janis Lee Thiessen
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2013
• EAN: 9781442611139
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-1113-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Canadian Social History Series; Canadian Social History; Canadian Social History Series; Canadian Social History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology