Martindale Center- Policy Briefs on the Future of Work

The Economic and Technical Feasibility of AI Substitution of Harvesting Jobs in the United States During COVID-19 1 Protecting Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy: Digital Labo r Pl atforms and the Case for a Dependent Contractor Classifica tion 6 Automation, Gender, and Race 10 Child Labor within the Ecuadorian Cities of Guayaquil and Quito 14 Combatting Child Labor through Vocational Training: Targeting Syrian Refugee Girls in Jordan 18 Empowering Domestic Workers in the Gulf States: First Steps Toward Organizing 22 What Methods Can Singapore Use to Further Protect Its Foreign Domestic Workers and Eradicate Forced Labor? 26 COVID-19 Impact on Human Trafficking: Racial Disparities and Social Media Use 30 The Impact of COVID-19 on the Wages and Living Conditions of the Syrian Migrants in Turkey 34 M itigating the Effects of COVID-19 on Wage Earnings for Female D omestic Workers in the Informal Economy in Ecuador and Brazi l 38 Essential, Undervalued, and Underpaid: Home Health Care Workers in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic 42 Policy Brief On... Special thanks to Kevin Cassidy, Director and Representative to the Bretton Woods and Multilateral Agencies, International Labour Organization Office for the United States, and Bill Hunter, Director, Fellowship Advising and UN Programs, Lehigh University, for their central roles in organizing the research externship program. Particular thanks also to the eleven teams’ research mentors from Lehigh University and Universidad San Francisco de Quito: Chris Harvey Bill Hunter Tashina Khabbaz Felipe Ante Levoyer Matt Mattern Kira Mendez Michael Schaefer Whitney Szmodis Michael Valdivieso ToddWatkins Bruce Whitehouse