Books

• Joint ed., with T Bennett, Material Powers: Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn (Routledge, 2010).
• Special issue: joint editor, with T Bennett and F Dodsworth, “Liberalisms,
• Government, Culture”, Cultural Studies, 21:4-5, Sept 2007, 525-778.
• The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City (Verso, 2003), translated into Greek and Chinese editions.
• (Ed.), The Social in Question : New Bearings in History and the Social Sciences, (Routledge, 2002).
• (Ed.), The Oxford Reader on Class, (Oxford University Press, 1995).
• Democratic Subjects: the Self and the Social in Nineteenth-century England (Cambridge University Press, 1994).
• Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class 1848-1914 (CUP, 1991).
• (Ed.), The Historical Meanings of Work, (Cambridge University Press, 1987).
• Work, Society and Politics: The Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England (Harvester Press, Brighton, 1980).

Articles, chapters

• " What is the social in social history? ", Past and Present, Feb., 2010.
• "History: Great Britain: 1815 to their Present", Encyclopædia Britannica, current edition.
• "The gift of the past: towards a critical history" in K. Jenkins, et al. (eds), Manifestos for History (Routledge, 2007).
• “A Post-modern Historian: Interview with Patrick Joyce”, Historiography Quarterly, 2:2003 (University of Shanghai Press, in Chinese).
• “More secondary modern than postmodern”, Rethinking History, 5:3, Dec.2001.
• “The return of history : postmodernism and the politics of academic history in Britain”, Past and Present, no 158, Feb 1998 207-235.
• "The end of social history?", Social History, 20:1, Jan. 1995, 73-91.
• "History and post-modernism", Past and Present, 133, Nov. 1991.
• "Work", chapter in Cambridge Social History of Great Britain, 1750—1950, vol.II (3 vols.), ed. F.M.L. Thompson (Cambridge University Press, 1990).