Faculty of Arts

Dr. Janis Thiessen: Book Launch at McNally Robinson

Please join us for the launch of Manufacturing Mennonites: Work and Religion in Post War Manitoba, on Sat. Apr. 27, 2013 at  2:00 PM in the Atrium at McNally Robinson in Grant Park.

Thiessen's book 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 relations.