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History (HIST) 471
Labour and Socialist Thought
in the Early Industrial Revolution, 1800-1850 (Revision 1)

Delivery mode: Individualized study.

Credits: 3 - Reading course - Humanities

Prerequisite: None. It is strongly recommended that students have credit in HIST 470, to which this course is a sequel. This course is primarily intended for students in the last stage of a BA in either History or Labour Studies.

Precluded course: HIST 471 is a cross-listed course—a course listed under 2 different disciplines—LBST 471. HIST 471 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for LBST 471 or HIST 400.

Centre: Centre for Global and Social Analysis

HIST 471 has a Challenge for Credit option.

Overview

HIST 471 is an advanced level course designed for students who have already completed HIST 470, and who wish to continue to study in depth the goals and fortunes of the European labour movement before the twentieth century. The course examines both the ideas of leading socialist intellectuals and the attitudes and values of rank-and-file members of the labour movement. It thereby attempts to combine a traditional approach to the history of ideas with the newer study of working-class popular culture.

Among the topics treated in the course are Ricardian Socialism, Owenism, Saint-Simonism, Fourierism, Icarianism, Chartism, French Social Republicanism, German Utopian Socialism, Proudhonism, and the origins of Marxism.

Outline

Unit 1: The Labouring Classes in the Early Industrial Revolution

Unit 2: The Founding Fathers of French Socialism

Unit 3: French Socialism in the 1830s and 1840s

Unit 4: The Making of British Socialism

Unit 5: British Socialism and Chartism in the 1830s and 1840s

Unit 6: The Beginnings of German Socialism

Unit 7: The Genesis of Marxism, 1842-1844

Unit 8: Early Marxism, 1845-1850

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Evaluation

To receive credit for HIST 471, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least “D” (50 percent) and a grade of at least 50 percent on the final examination. The weighting of the course assignments is as follows:

Essay 1 Essay 2 Final Exam Total
25% 35% 40% 100%

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

Course Materials

Textbooks

Kolakowski, Leszek. 1978. Main Currents of Marxism, Volume 1: The Founders. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Stafford, William. 1987. Socialism, Radicalism and Nostalgia: Social Criticism in Britain, 1755-1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Taylor, Keith. 1982. The Political Ideas of the Utopian Socialists. London: Frank Case.

Other Materials

The course materials include a study guide, a student manual, and a book of readings.

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