Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City (Oxford University Press, 2011)

Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times (NYU Press, 2009).

Co-Editor, The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace (Temple University Press, 2007).

Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade-Lessons from Shanghai (Pantheon, 2006; Vintage, 2007).

Low Pay, High Profile: The Global Push for Fair Labor (New Press, 2004; Co-Editor Anti-Americanism, New York University Press, 2004).

No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and its Hidden Costs (Basic Books, 2002).

The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney's New Town (Ballantine, 1999).

Real Love: In Pursuit of Cultural Justice (NYU Press, 1998).

Editor, No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade and the Rights of Garment Workers (1997, Verso).

Editor, Science Wars (Duke Univ. Press, 1996).

Co-Editor, Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture (Routledge, 1994).

The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life: Nature's Debt to Society (Verso, 1994).

Strange Weather: Culture, Science and Technology in the Age of Limits (Verso, 1991).

Co-Editor, Technoculture (Minnesota, 1991).

No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture (Routledge, 1989).

Editor, Universal Abandon? The Politics of Postmodernism (University of Minnesota Press, 1988).

The Failure of Modernism: Symptoms of American Poetry (Columbia University Press, 1986).