Eli Friedman is associate professor and chair of international and comparative labor at Cornell University’s ILR School. He is the author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China (2014) and coeditor of the English edition of China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance (2016).

This is an enormous endeavor well accomplished. Backed up by rich fieldwork and painstaking research over many years, this book tells a poignant story of China’s prodigious urbanization, on the back of a huge migrant labor class, through their and teachers’ struggles in the arena of education. Friedman also advances a provocative and rigorous theorization of the process linked to the state-designed sociospatial hierarchy and biopolitical machinery.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Conceptualizing the Politics of Urbanization: The Just-in-Time Response2. Urban Developmentalism and the Inverted Welfare State3. The Migrant School: Concentrated Deprivation4. Rendered Surplus: Parents Navigate “Population Control via Education”5. Population Management’s “Hard Edge”: School Closures and Demolitions6. Reproductive Shock Absorbers: Teachers in Migrant SchoolsConclusion: Global ExtensionsMethodological AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

Eli Friedman is associate professor and chair of international and comparative labor at Cornell University’s ILR School. He is the author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China (2014) and coeditor of the English edition of China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance (2016).

This is an enormous endeavor well accomplished. Backed up by rich fieldwork and painstaking research over many years, this book tells a poignant story of China’s prodigious urbanization, on the back of a huge migrant labor class, through their and teachers’ struggles in the arena of education. Friedman also advances a provocative and rigorous theorization of the process linked to the state-designed sociospatial hierarchy and biopolitical machinery.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Conceptualizing the Politics of Urbanization: The Just-in-Time Response2. Urban Developmentalism and the Inverted Welfare State3. The Migrant School: Concentrated Deprivation4. Rendered Surplus: Parents Navigate “Population Control via Education”5. Population Management’s “Hard Edge”: School Closures and Demolitions6. Reproductive Shock Absorbers: Teachers in Migrant SchoolsConclusion: Global ExtensionsMethodological AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

Eli Friedman is associate professor and chair of international and comparative labor at Cornell University’s ILR School. He is the author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China (2014) and coeditor of the English edition of China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance (2016).

This is an enormous endeavor well accomplished. Backed up by rich fieldwork and painstaking research over many years, this book tells a poignant story of China’s prodigious urbanization, on the back of a huge migrant labor class, through their and teachers’ struggles in the arena of education. Friedman also advances a provocative and rigorous theorization of the process linked to the state-designed sociospatial hierarchy and biopolitical machinery.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Conceptualizing the Politics of Urbanization: The Just-in-Time Response2. Urban Developmentalism and the Inverted Welfare State3. The Migrant School: Concentrated Deprivation4. Rendered Surplus: Parents Navigate “Population Control via Education”5. Population Management’s “Hard Edge”: School Closures and Demolitions6. Reproductive Shock Absorbers: Teachers in Migrant SchoolsConclusion: Global ExtensionsMethodological AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex