Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income

Challenging the Market offers insights from eighteen scholars and activists from around the world. Calling on a tremendous range of experience in different countries, different industries, and with different groups of workers, contributors argue that labour market policy should shift to a more interventionist and compassionate footing.

For two decades economic and social policy in most of the world has been guided by the notion that economies function best when they are fully exposed to comp...