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- "Co-ops, Communes, and Collectives" (2008)
- "The Case for Socialism" (2008)
- "The New Old Politics: The Lessons of Reagan's America" (1991)
- "Anarchist Roots of the Global Justice Movement" (2003)
- "Transforming U.S. Social Policy: Radical Visions and Proposals for the Clinton Administration and Beyond" (1993, co-edited with Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward)
- "Understanding U.S. Social Policy" (2007)