Manufacturing Mennonites: Work and Religion in Post-War Manitoba

by 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 identity claims were contested during this period, Janis Thiessen explores how Mennonite workers responded to such redefinitions and how they affected class...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442611138
• ISBN13: 9781442611139
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher