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Eli Friedman is a Professor of Global Labor and Work at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), where he has served since 2011. He holds affiliations with the Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences and the China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program, focusing on labor dynamics within China's global economic ascent.
Education:
- PhD in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
His research examines state responses to worker unrest in China, urbanization challenges for rural migrants, and transnational labor politics across Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. Key interests span China's development trajectory, social movements, educational access for migrants, and global labor relations systems. Friedman employs comparative frameworks to analyze how China's economic rise since 1990 reshapes labor institutions worldwide.
He is author of three major works: Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China (Cornell, 2014), The Urbanization of People (Columbia, 2022), and China in Global Capitalism (Haymarket, 2024). His scholarship appears in ILR Review, Theory and Society, and China Quarterly, alongside contributions to Jacobin.
Scientific Awards:
- No awards documented in source materials
Friedman advises the Cornell Labor Action Tracker—the sole comprehensive U.S. strike database—and mentors doctoral candidates through specialized seminars. His teaching portfolio includes courses on China-U.S. labor relations, migrant labor systems, and global political economy, emphasizing empirical analysis of labor movements.
He directs the Cornell Labor Action Tracker initiative, which catalogs nationwide strike activity to support academic research and labor advocacy, while advancing comparative studies on citizenship regimes in Chinese urbanization.
