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Analyzing survey and interview data gathered in 1990 and 1991, the author assesses the influence of worker gender on the union organizing philosophy and strategies adopted by union organizing directors and field organizers. The results suggest that although most of those sampled did not view worker gender as influential in shaping organizing style, some service sector union organizers and organizers of "pink-collar" workers (who are predominantly female) were using organizing styles different from the conventional style. Further, the approaches of female organizers, particularly those organizing for occupationally targeted divisions of manufacturing unions, appeared to be explicitly gender-conscious.

A-7 (characterizing unionization among physicians as "growing rapidly" in response to the devaluation of medical professionalism by managed care). 7.

Fundamental then, to a feminist approach to labour law, is challenging the assumption that unions represent the interests of [all] the workers."). 4. See supra notes 1, 3. These writers apparently believe that this transformation and "degenderization" process will be performed primarily by feminist scholars. Their work is consequently vulnerable to the criticism, advanced by critical race theorists, that their version of feminism is essentialist in nature: those engaged in feminist discourse and scholarship are primarily white, college-educated, middle-and upper-class women who focus solely on gender as a system of power relations while ignoring other critical aspects of identity such as race, ethnicity, and class.

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