Description
Examines American radical movements and its global origins, the challenges that it offered to American capitalism from the late 19th century through the 21st century. The course will identify and define the theories behind anarchism, communism, and other radical ideologies. The course will also identify the growth of American labor unions, specifically the Industrial Workers of the World and will focus on the strikes and conflicts between working-class radicals and capitalists and how American radicalism impacted world affairs and was impacted by communist revolutions in the first half of the 20th century. The narrative of the American labor movement and challenges to capitalism will continue to explore the post-World War II economic boom, the fall of American manufacturing, and the struggles of wage laborers into the age of globalization culminating in the Occupy Wall Street movement. For majors, this will be categorized under the Americas concentration.
Prerequisite: EN 110 or EN 11