Do Unions Still Care about Class? Text Mining a Near-Century Decline of Class Rhetoric in a British Trade Union
Published online on February 23, 2026
Abstract
Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Using an original dataset of 91 years of the Fire Brigades Union’s journal,The Firefighter, we use text mining to analyse changes in how the union discusses class. We show that where class was once a central discourse within the union, it is now rarely ...
Using an original dataset of 91 years of the Fire Brigades Union’s journal,The Firefighter, we use text mining to analyse changes in how the union discusses class. We show that where class was once a central discourse within the union, it is now rarely ...