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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Montreal ; Kingston :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2016]
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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.