The Ilkeston and District Hosiery Union was a trade union representing people involved in making hosiery in northern Nottinghamshire and eastern Derbyshire, in England.
The union was a founder member of the Midland Counties Hosiery Federation, in which it worked with the Leicester and Leicestershire Amalgamated Hosiery Union and the Nottingham United Rotary Power Framework Knitters' Society.
[1] In the 1880s and 1890s, a growing number of hosiery workers were women, but the Ilkeston union remained dominated by men; by 1910, only 72 out of 642 members were women.
The union also expanded its area, with branches as far afield as Ambergate and Buxton, and admitted administrative and supervisory staff.
It grew back to 4,000 members by 1939, but dropped to 3,500 during World War II.