The History of Trade Unionism

工会源自欧洲，在工业革命后流行世界。工会可能包含工人个体、专业人士、退休职工、学生、学徒或无业职工。 自悉尼·韋伯和贝特丽丝·韦伯的《工会历史（英语：The History of Trade Unionism）》（1894）出版后，历史对工会的主流观点为“旨在维持和改善雇佣环境的工薪者持续性组织。”卡尔·马克思将工会描绘为：“

A History of Trade Unionism in the United States 1922 - 313 pages online edition （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） Taylor, Paul F. The ABC-CLIO Companion to the American

Martin; Taylor, Graham; Mathers, Andrew. The Crisis of Social Democratic Trade Unionism in Western Europe: The Search for Alternatives. Contemporary Employment

Great Britain: The 1976 IMF Crisis. Yale University Press. 1992-01-01. ISBN 978-0300057287 （英语）.  A history of British trade unionism c. 1770–1990 by

The Ulster crisis: resistance to home rule, 1912–1914 (1967). Carolyn Augspurger, "National identity, religion, and Irish unionism: the rhetoric of Irish