Not talking union : an oral history of North American Mennonites and labour /

This book investigates the labor history of a people who have not been involved in the twentieth-century labor movement in large numbers, North American Mennonites. It explores their historically-constructed attitudes toward organized labor and unions, which it attempts to understand on its own term...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thiessen, Janis, 1971- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Tables and figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • "I tell you these things because it cast my view of God:" narratives of religious belief
  • "Not part of the landscape:" attitudes towards unions
  • "What would you say, for the archives?" California Mennonites and migrant workers
  • "What is said publicly must be carefully framed:" Mennonite memory of California conflict
  • "They work with troubled conscience:" conscientious objections to unions in Manitoba
  • "It's easy to write a paper; it's not so easy to live:" the faith-based workplace
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • INdex.