Yeah! I’m becoming interested as a historian and as a union officer in the form that meeting minutes take. I am interested especially in how expectations around consistency, verbatim speech, privacy etc as recorded have changed as minutes have become more available to membership through digital —

- storage, Vs. Previously being kept as physical copies within union offices. To me, digital storage/availability of minutes has a big impact on the function of the minutes.

From what I've seen in archives, int'l conventions have almost always gone for a transcript-style. Local unions vary from verbose to bare-bones, and usually remain in whichever format as a tradition.

Ah. I'm not familiar with academic papers on the subject. Good place to start might be the folks at Labor Notes. They probably have an archive of their own "how tos" that could help you construct a history. Other practical labor centers (Cornell, Rutgers, UCLA, etc.) might have similar.