Service, Solidarity, and Self-Help: A Comparative Topic Modeling Analysis of Community Unionism in the Boot and Shoe Union and Unite Community
This paper presents a comparative analysis of community unionism (CU) in two distinct historical and organizational contexts: the National Boot and Shoe Union (B\&S) in the 1920s and Unite Community in the 2010s--2020s. Using BERTopic for thematic modeling and cTF-IDF weighting, alongside word frequency analysis, the s...