Solely authored works

• Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. ISBN 1-59213-197-2 Google Books link
• State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. New edition. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-691-11654-7 Google Books link
• Walter Reuther, The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1997. ISBN 0-252-06626-X Google Books link
• The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business.New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2009. ISBN 0-8050-7966-1

Co-authored works

• Who Built America? Vol. 2: 1865 to the Present, with Roy Rosenzweig and Joshua Brown. Boston: Bedford Books, 2007.

Edited works

• Industrial Democracy in America, co-edited with Harris Howell John. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
• Major Problems in the History of American Workers, with Eileen Boris. Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
• American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. ISBN 0-8122-3923-7 Google Books link
• Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism. New York: The New Press, 2005. Cloth ISBN 1-59558-035-2; Paperback ISBN 1-59558-021-2

• Who's Who in the South and Southwest. 24th ed. New Providence, N.J.: Marquis Who's Who, 2002.