- Milkman, Ruth. 2020. "Labor as a Movement: Working-Class Mobilization Against Neoliberalism Since the 1970s." Social movements, mobilizing structures, and contentious politics
- Milkman, Ruth. 2015. "The Political Economy of Care as an Analytic Framework." Politics & gender in a Changing World.
- Milkman, Ruth. 2014. "Women and men care about care." Critical perspectives on care: Conversations with social scientists
- Milkman, Ruth. 2011. "Labor vs. Labor: From Laborism to Service Sector Unionism in the American labor movement." International Labor and Working-Class History
- Milkman, Ruth. 2007. "How Unions Shape Work Time for Low-Wage Workers in the US Service Sector." Journal of Industrial Relations (2007-1104): 307-325.
Books:
- Milkman, Ruth. 2020. Labor's Last Stand: Workers and Unions during Capitalism's Decades of Crisis (Essays in Economic History). NYU Press.
- Milkman, Ruth. 2020. Care Work: Dreams and Struggles. Verso Books.
- Milkman, Ruth. 2015. Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex and Race. Cornell University Press.
- Milkman, Ruth. 1989. Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex and Race. University of California Press.