Field Researcher

The American Center for International Labor Solidarity (Solidarity Center) empowers men and women around the world to earn safe and dignified livelihoods, exercise their fundamental labor rights, and have a voice in shaping work conditions and public policies that impact their lives. Our 250+ professional staff work in about 60 countries with 900-plus labor unions, pro-worker nongovernmental organizations, legal-aid groups, human rights defenders, women’s associations, advocacy coalitions, and others to support workers as they exercise their rights, including organizing for safer work sites, demanding living wages, improving laws (and the enforcement of existing laws) that protect working people, and fight exploitation and abuse.

The University of Sydney, the Solidarity Center, Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA, and Building and Woodworkers’ International (BWI) are partnering to conduct a three-year research project on gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) in Cambodia’s construction sector. The research is primarily funded by the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Linkage Scheme, along with financial and in-kind contributions from the project partners. The project aims to generate evidence to support better responses to workplace GBVH in Cambodia’s construction sector and identify ways this can be supported by the international labour movement. The research is a mixed methods study involving a survey of female workers, and semi-structured interviews with workers, union leaders and members, and representatives of labour organisations. The project will result in a detailed and systematic analysis of workplace GBVH and of local and international labour movement actors’ efforts to combat it. The partners – and other labour movement actors – will use this evidence base to evaluate and refine their workplace anti-GBVH programs.