Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Thursday announced the creation of a new statewide, multiagency task force dedicated to investigating worker exploitation and abuse across a variety of industries, including restaurants, child care services and carwashes.

The task force, which includes 10 state agencies and more than 700 investigators, will work alongside an advisory committee that will provide recommendations for legislative and regulatory changes to address the problems. The effort, which will initially focus on more than a dozen industries, is modeled on a similar task force dedicated to the nail salon industry that the Cuomo administration established two months ago after a rticles in The New York Times exposed widespread underpayment and other abuses encountered by manicurists.

“This is so widespread, in some ways we’ve all looked the other way,” Mr. Cuomo said during a ceremony on Thursday in the Bronx in which he signed legislation aimed at protecting workers in the nail salon industry.

The advisory committee will meet monthly, state officials said, and provide its first set of recommendations by December, so they can be considered for next year’s legislative session.