Labour Studies (LBST) 331

Overview

LBST 331 considers the historical experience of popular ideologies and social movements in North America. More specifically, it assesses the type of ideologies women, farmers, and workers created and utilized as they built social movements of resistance, opposition, and critique in the period between 1860 and 1960.

In the century under study; feminism, populism, socialism, labourism, and other ideologies came into existence and were taken up by various peoples as they tried to make sense of their place in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century society.

Outline

Unit 1: Producerism, Labourism, and Socialism in the North American Labour Movements, 1860-1919

Unit 2: Agrarian Movements and the Populist Movement, 1880-1920s

Unit 3: The Women's Movement, 1880s-1920s

Unit 4: The Grounding of Modern Feminism, 1920s-1950s

Unit 5: Communism, Reformism, and Labour, 1920-1960

Unit 6: Twentieth-Century Agrarianism

Evaluation

To receive credit for LBST 331, you must complete the course assignments and achieve a mark of 50% or better on the final exam to pass the course. The weighting of assignments is as follows:

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.