Alternative Visions: Rebels and Revolutionaries in Canada

6 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture/Seminar) This lecture/seminar course examines critically the cultural, social and organizational development of the anarchist, feminist, labour, and socialist movements of late nineteenth and twentieth century Canada. Topics include the origins of the first workers' movements; the history of the One Big Union and the Winnipeg General Strike; early feminist organizations, including the Women's Labour League; the founding of communist, socialist, and labourist parties; the Progressive Arts Movement and conflicts with the state in the 1930s; Student and Women's movements in the 1960s; Nuclear Disarmament Campaigns; and the emergence of the social justice/anti-globalization movements.