This paper investigates the role of “women's issues” in the decision to join unions by examining a successful organizing drive in a predominantly female workplace. The main focus of the discussion is the identification of women's issues where they were not immediately apparent to workers and...

As a departure from the more traditional managerial literature, a women‐centred perspective of social relations at work is adopted. The conventional view is that we are “different” – we do ot conform to the model of a good manager – and this explains our failure to reach the top. A...