Unionism may refer to:

Trades

  • Community unionism, the ways trade unions work with community organizations
  • Craft unionism, a model of trade unionism in which workers are organised based on a particular craft or trade
  • Dual unionism, the development of a union or political organization parallel to and within an existing labor union
  • Industrial unionism, a labor union organizing method in which all workers in the same industry are organized into the same union
  • New Unionism, a term which has been used twice in the history of the labour movement to describe moves to broaden the union agenda
  • Open-source unionism, a term coined by academics Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers to explain a possible new model for organizing workers
  • Social Movement Unionism, a trend of theory and practice in contemporary trade unionism
  • Solidarity unionism, a model of labour organizing in which the workers themselves formulate strategy and take action
  • The organization of workers in trade unions

Politics

  • Preference for maintaining a political union as opposed to separatism
  • Unionism in Belgium
  • Union (American Civil War)
  • Ittihadism, ideology of the Committee of Union and Progress in the Ottoman Empire
  • Unification of Moldova and Romania, advocates are referred to as "Unionists"
  • Albanian unionism
  • Serbian–Montenegrin unionism
  • Spanish unionism

In the British Isles

  • Unionism in the United Kingdom, support for the UK constituent countries remaining part of the United Kingdom state
  • Unionism in Ireland, support for Ireland (mainly Northern Ireland) being part of the UK, rather than a Republic of Ireland or an independent Northern Ireland
  • Unionism in Scotland, support for Scotland remaining part of the UK
  • Unionism in England, support for England remaining part of the UK
  • Unionism in Wales, support for Wales remaining part of the UK

Education

  • The organization of students in students' unions
  • Voluntary student unionism, a policy under which membership of student unions is voluntary

Religion

  • Christian ecumenism, initiatives aimed at worldwide Christian unity

See also

  • Unification (disambiguation)
  • Unionist (disambiguation)
  • Union (disambiguation)