Manufacturing Mennonites ：Work and Religion in Post-War Manitoba ( Canadian Social History Series )

Publication subTitle ：Work and Religion in Post-War Manitoba

Publication series ：Canadian Social History Series

Author： Thiessen Janis Lee  

Publisher： University of Toronto Press‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9781442690332

Subject： K711.9 local annals

Keyword： 劳动关系,美洲史,世界史

Language： ENG

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Description

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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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

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