Empowering Workers to Improve Conditions at Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects
Debt bondage, appalling working conditions and the death of nearly 1,000 migrant workers at construction sites in Qatar—in the lead-up to the FIFA World Cup in 2022—have focused the world’s attention on labor abuses at high-profile construction projects. The construction of New York University’s Abu Dhabi campus in the United Arab Emirates has also been the subject of recent allegations of harsh working conditions, and China’s construction industry has long been dogged by health- and safety-related deaths.