Definition of "trade unionism" []

• The system or principles and theory of labor unions (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Most of the works on foreign trade and currency disappeared from the shelves -- their author, the People's Commissar for Finance, had just been arrested; also nearly all old Party Congress reports treating the same subject; most books and reference-books on the history of antecedents of the Revolution; most works by living authors of jurisprudence and philosophy; all pamphlets dealing with the problems of birth control; the manuals on the structure of the People's Army; treatises on trade unionism and the right to strike in the People's state; practically every study of the problems of political constitution more than two years old, and, finally, even the volumes of the ~Encyclopaedia~ published by the Academy -- a new revised edition being promised shortly."
• "There are three million unemployed, the government’s threatening legislation that will be the effective end of trade unionism in this country, and my union’s got its knickers in a twist because someone is getting their kicks from taking the mickey."