A Framework to Develop Interventions to Address Labor Exploitation and Trafficking: Integration of Behavioral and Decision Science within a Case Study of Day Laborers
A Framework to Develop Interventions to Address Labor Exploitation and Trafficking: Integration of Behavioral and Decision Science within a Case Study of Day Laborers
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10.3390/soc13040096
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发表时间：
2023-04
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2.1
通讯作者：
M. Kammer-Kerwick;Mayra Yundt-Pacheco;Nayan Vashisht;Kara Takasaki;N. Busch-Armendariz
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作者：
M. Kammer-Kerwick;Mayra Yundt-Pacheco;Nayan Vashisht;Kara Takasaki;N. Busch-Armendariz
本文描述了一个过程，整合行为和决策科学的方法来设计和评估干预措施，以破坏非法行为。我们开发了这个过程，通过扩展一个框架，用于研究具有不确定结果的系统，其中只有部分信息是可观察的，其中有多个参与方的竞争目标。我们提出的扩展框架建立从人工数据收集，专题分析，描述性分析，预测建模和基于代理的建模。我们使用基于代理的建模来表征和预测系统参与者之间的交互，以提高我们对虚拟环境中介入目标的理解，然后在现场进行试点。我们将扩展框架应用于探索性案例研究，探讨工人中心作为部署干预措施以解决劳动剥削和人口贩运问题的场所的潜力。本案例研究的重点是减少工资盗窃，最普遍的剥削形式所经历的日工和应用扩展框架的前三个步骤。具体而言，该案例研究对旨在破坏剥削过程和改善日工经历的两种社会干预措施进行了初步评估，即：（1）主张对日工进行培训，使其了解工人的权利和解决工资盗窃问题的选择，以及（2）媒体活动旨在通过广播渠道传播有关工人权利和解决工资盗窃问题的选择的类似教育信息。将扩展框架应用于工人中心的日工案例研究，展示了数字技术如何用于监控，评估和支持工人中心工作人员和日工之间的合作。理想情况下，这些合作可以得到改善，以减轻工资盗窃的风险和成本，在工人中心利益相关者之间建立信任，并解决临时工和雇主之间的沟通挑战。基于扩展框架的应用，工人中心日工的案例研究，我们讨论了如何在研究框架的下一步应该优先理解如何以及为什么雇主做出决定，参与工资盗窃和潜在的恢复性司法和公平匹配的关系模型，雇主和劳动者在一个幸福的经济。
This paper describes a process that integrates behavioral and decision science methods to design and evaluate interventions to disrupt illicit behaviors. We developed this process by extending a framework used to study systems with uncertain outcomes, where only partial information is observable, and wherein there are multiple participating parties with competing goals. The extended framework that we propose builds from artefactual data collection, thematic analysis, and descriptive analysis, toward predictive modeling and agent-based modeling. We use agent-based modeling to characterize and predict interactions between system participants for the purpose of improving our understanding of interventional targets in a virtual environment before piloting them in the field. We apply our extended framework to an exploratory case study that examines the potential of worker centers as a venue for deploying interventions to address labor exploitation and human trafficking. This case study focuses on reducing wage theft, the most prevalent form of exploitation experienced by day laborers and applies the first three steps of the extended framework. Specifically, the case study makes a preliminary assessment of two types of social interventions designed to disrupt exploitative processes and improve the experiences of day laborers, namely: (1) advocates training day laborers about their workers’ rights and options that they have for addressing wage theft and (2) media campaigns designed to disseminate similar educational messages about workers’ rights and options to address wage theft through broadcast channels. Applying the extended framework to this case study of day laborers at a worker center demonstrates how digital technology could be used to monitor, evaluate, and support collaborations between worker center staff and day laborers. Ideally, these collaborations could be improved to mitigate the risks and costs of wage theft, build trust between worker center stakeholders, and address communication challenges between day laborers and employers, in the context of temporary work. Based on the application of the extended framework to this case study of worker center day laborers, we discuss how next steps in the research framework should prioritize understanding how and why employers make decisions to participate in wage theft and the potential for restorative justice and equity matching as a relationship model for employers and laborers in a well-being economy.