Kicking off the Transform-Labor project

Through partnerships with key stakeholders such as the Chamber of Labor and the Construction and Woodworkers’ Union, the project 

(a) examines the root causes of workers’ vulnerability across political-economic, institutional, socio-cultural, and infrastructural dimensions; 

(b) develops holistic indicators for assessing the effectiveness of transformative adaptation; and 

(c) identifies pathways for transformative adaptation that can improve workers’ wellbeing and support the equitable and sustainable provision of essential services in the care and housing sectors.

The Transform-Labor project thereby addresses the challenges of adapting to increasing heat stress affecting Austria’s mobile long-term care and construction sectors and explores how a System of Provision (SoP) approach can support the development of transformative adaptation measures. The project focuses in particular on heat-exposed workers in these sectors and on labor as a crucial provisioning factor. Both sectors are characterized by gendered divisions of labor, physically demanding working conditions, labor shortages, and high levels of heat exposure.