4 papers
Quantifying the Impact of CU: A Systematic Literature Review
Thomas Compton
Community Unionism has served as a pivotal concept in debates on trade union renewal since the early 2000s, yet its theoretical coherence and political significance remain unresolv…
Service, Solidarity, and Self-Help: A Comparative Topic Modeling Analysis of Community Unionism in the Boot and Shoe Union and Unite Community
Thomas Compton
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 a…
Beyond the Black Box: Integrating Lexical and Semantic Methods in Quantitative Discourse Analysis with BERTopic
Thomas Compton
Quantitative Discourse Analysis has seen growing adoption with the rise of Large Language Models and computational tools. However, reliance on black box software such as MAXQDA and…
Holistic Evaluations of Topic Models
Thomas Compton
Topic models are gaining increasing commercial and academic interest for their ability to summarize large volumes of unstructured text. As unsupervised machine learning methods, th…