Eli Friedman is Associate Professor and Chair of International and Comparative Labor at Cornell. His most recent book is The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City.
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Eli Friedman is Associate Professor and Chair of International and Comparative Labor at Cornell. His most recent book is The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City.
Protests in China are shining a light not only on the country’s draconian population management but restrictions on workers everywhere.
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