Labour Studies (LBST) 472

Overview

LBST 472 is an advanced-level course designed for students who have already completed LBST 471, and who wish to continue to study in depth the goals and fortunes of the European labour movement in the second half of the nineteenth century and in the early 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 the later thought of Marx and Engels, nineteenth-century British trade-unionism, Christian socialism, the revisionist controversy, social democratic reformism, revolutionary syndicalism, and revolutionary Marxism.

Outline

Unit 1: The Labouring Classes in the Later Industrial Revolution, 1850-1914

Unit 2: Christian Socialism in the 19th Century

Unit 3: Anarchism and Populism

Unit 4: Karl Marx, 1850-1883

Unit 5: Friedrich Engels, 1850-1895

Unit 6: The First Marxist Disciples

Unit 7: Fabianism, Possibilism, and the Revisionist Controversy

Unit 8: Georges Sorel and Revolutionary Syndicalism

Unit 9: The Second International and Parliamentary Socialism

Unit 10: Austro-Marxism and Revolutionary Marxism

Evaluation

To receive credit for LBST 472, 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
30%	30%	40%	100%

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

Course Materials

Textbooks

Other Materials

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

Challenge for Credit Course Overview

The Challenge for Credit process allows students to demonstrate that they have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university level course.

Full information for the Challenge for Credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.

• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Policy
• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Procedures

Challenge Evaluation

To receive credit for the LBST 472 challenge registration, you must achieve a grade of at least “D” (50 percent) on the entire challenge examination.

Part I: Exam	Part II: Exam	Total
50%	50%	100%

Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Course Registration Form

• Challenge for Credit Form