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Andrea Gideon, The Cambridge Handbook of Labor in Competition Law, Industrial Law Journal, 2025;, dwaf005, https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwaf005
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The edited collection Labor in Competition Law by Sanjukta Paul, Shae Crystal and Ewan McGaughey is a comprehensive collection of chapters on a complex and topical subject. This made it difficult to review, as it is not an easy feat to discuss 21 very different chapters in a short review. Nonetheless, it was a very worthwhile read. While the topic of tensions between labour and competition law has received some attention over recent years, especially with the rise of the gig economy, the collection provides an important contribution to this area by not only providing an impressive 14 country studies, but also conceptual and theoretical contributions addressing the topic from original and critical angles.
The collection begins with a preface, where the editors challenge the orthodoxy in competition law that all non-efficiency issues should be left to regulation in other areas of law (here labour law). Instead, the edited collection aims to ‘engage and challenge competition law on its own terms’.1 In the introduction, where Sanjukta Paul otherwise contextualises the collection in the wider debates and delineates what is and is not within its scope, she makes this point even clearer when she states the aim of the book to be a push away from the ‘assumption of latent conflict between labor and competition law’2. Instead, she points out, that it is normative ideas underlying both areas of law which conflict. There is no inherent need for this to be the case.
