* Industrial Discipline: The Adventures of Texaco in the Golden Age of Capitalism (1991, Cornell University Press)
* The Unmaking of the American Economy (2011, Oxford University Press) with Robert Kuttner
* The Case for a Job Guarantee (2012, MIT Press), edited with Robert Kuttner
* When the World Ran on Steam: Steam Power and Heat Engines in America (2014, Johns Hopkins University Press)
Articles and essays
* "The Death of American Industry", The Nation (1990)
* "The Great Tax Shift: How Washington Sold Our Middle Class to Big Business", The Nation (1992)
* "The Case Against the Balanced Budget Amendment", The Nation (1994)
* "The Assault on the Welfare State: How the Right Is Destabilizing American Society", The Nation (1995)
* "The Unhappy Marriage of Wall Street and Washington", The Nation (2002)
* "The Real Crisis: Corporate Power and the Decline of American Democracy", The American Prospect (2004)
* "The Decline of American Manufacturing: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It", The American Prospect (2005)
* "The Economic Crisis: What Caused It and What to Do About It", The American Prospect (2008)
* "The Green New Deal: A Job Guarantee for the 21st Century", The American Prospect (2009)
Op-eds and commentaries
* "The Case for a Job Guarantee", The New York Times (2011)
* "A Jobs Guarantee: The Next New Deal", The Washington Post (2012)
* "The Case for a Federal Job Guarantee", The Wall Street Journal (2012)
* "A Job Guarantee: The Best Way to Fight Poverty and Inequality", The Guardian (2013)
* "A Job Guarantee: The Future of Work", The Nation (2014)
* "A Job Guarantee: The Key to Full Employment", The Progressive (2015)
* "A Job Guarantee: The Next Phase of the Green New Deal", The American Prospect (2016)
* "A Job Guarantee: The Only Way to Save American Democracy", The Nation (2017)
* "A Job Guarantee: The Future of Social Policy", The American Prospect (2018)
* "A Job Guarantee: The Key to a Just and Sustainable Economy", The Nation (2019)
* "A Job Guarantee: The Path to Economic Recovery", The American Prospect (2020)