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List of contents
1. Labor in competition: introduction Sanjukta Paul; 2. Collective labour rights for working people: the legal framework established by the International Labour Organization Tonia Novitz; 3. Economic coordination as freedom of association Alan Bogg; 4. The state's power to govern in this field is paramount: antitrust labor and the first amendment Charlotte Garden; 5. Competition law as collective bargaining law Nathan Tankus and Luke Herrine; 6. Antitrust free trade and fissuring Erik Peinert; 7. American antitrust exceptionalism Sanjukta Paul and Sandeep Vaheesan; 8. Competition and labour law in Canada: the contestable margins of legal toleration Eric Tucker; 9. Workers and competition law in Japan Masako Wakui; 10. Workers and competition law in Australia: the public benefits of collective bargaining Shae McCrystal; 11. Workers and competition law in New Zealand Dawn Duncan; 12. Competition law and labour law: South Africa D. M. Davis; 13. Workers and competition law in India: workers associations are mostly not cartels Supriya Routh; 14. Competition and labour law in the United Kingdom: history theory and practice Ewan McGaughey; 15. A solution in search of a problem? Collective rights and the antitrust labour exemption in Italy Antonio Aloisi and Elena Gramano; 16. Competition law and labour law in Germany: legitimate cartels? Maja Beisenherz; 17. Labour law and competition law under French regulation Leticia Driguez; 18. Competition law cartels and collective bargaining: an Irish goodbye? Michael Doherty; 19. The EU competition law and workers rights Nicola Countouris, Valerio De Stefano and Ioannis Lianos; 20. Is South American collective labor law confronted by competition law? A preliminary approach considering existing challenges Pablo Arellano Ortiz; 21. Conclusion: The themes of labor in competition law Shae McCrystal and Ewan McGaughey.
About the author
Sanjukta Paul is Assistant Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School. She has published extensively on antitrust and labor law, and is the author of the forthcoming Solidarity in the Shadow of Antitrust: Labor and the Legal Idea of Competition (Cambridge University Press).Shae McCrystal is Professor of Labour Law at the University of Sydney Law School. She is an expert on the intersection of labor and competition law and, most recently, is co-author of Strike Ballots, Law and Democracy (2020).Ewan McGaughey teaches labour, enterprise and contract law at King's College, London and is a research associate at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge. His latest books are Principles of Enterprise Law: the Economic Constitution and Human Rights (CUP 2022) and A Very Short Introduction to the Corporation (2022).
Summary
This book explores the global legal context of the putative tensions between labor rights and competition policy. It will benefit those studying the gig economy and the fissured workplace, including labor, competition, international trade, constitutional and human rights lawyers, as well as law and political economy scholars.
Foreword
This book explores labor and competition law in 14 jurisdictions and globally, addressing cutting-edge questions in the legal organization of markets.
