Eli Friedman, Cornell University

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Assistant Professor Ithaca, New York edf48@cornell.edu

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China Chinese migrants access to education Chinese urbanization Economic Development Industrial relations systems Labor and politics Labor and society Labor movements Labor relations Political economy Social movements Unions Urban labor movements Urbanization Worker unrest in China

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Eli Friedman joined the faculty of the ILR School's department of International and Comparative Labor in 2011 after completing his PhD in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His primary areas of interest are China, development, education, globalization, social movements, theory, ...

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Bio/Research

Eli Friedman joined the faculty of the ILR School's department of International and Comparative Labor in 2011 after completing his PhD in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His primary areas of interest are China, development, education, globalization, social movements, theory, urbanization, and work and labor. Eli currently has two major research projects, the first of which looks at state responses to worker unrest in China and the development of labor relations institutions. The second project is a study of Chinese urbanization, with a particular focus on access to education for rural to urban migrants.

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