Eli Friedman
Associate Professor of International & Comparative Labor, Cornell University ILR School
Eli Friedman has a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and has been on the faculty of the ILR School since 2011. His primary areas of interest are China and Asia, development, social movements, urbanization, and work and labor. He is the author of "The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City" (Columbia 2022) and "Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China" (Cornell 2014). His peer reviewed articles have appeared in ILR Review, Theory and Society, Development and Change, and China Quarterly, among others.