
(OR Books, 2022)

SUNBELT BLUES
The Failure of American Housing
Metropolitan Books/Holt, 2021
Under Conditions Not of Our Choosing
Juxta Press, 2020


Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal
OR Books, 2014
Translated into Korean, Turkish, Italian, and Spanish


The Exorcist and the Machines
Kassel, Documenta, 2012
Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City
Oxford University Press, 2011


Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times
NYU Press, 2009
Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade–Lessons from Shanghai
Pantheon, 2006, Paperback edition, Vintage, 2007
Jiuzhou Press, Beijing, 2007
Yuan-Liou Press, Taipei, 2008


Low Pay, High Profile: The Global Push for Fair Labor
New Press, 2004
No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and its Hidden Costs
Basic Books, 2003
Paperback edition, 2004
Temple University Press, 2004.


The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Property Value in Disney’s New Town
New York: Ballantine, 1999
London, Verso, 2000
Rome, Arcana Libri, 2002
The Failure of Modernism: Symptoms of American Poetry
Columbia University Press, 1986

EDITED COLLECTIONS

The Helsinki Effect: A Public Alternative to the Guggenheim Model of Culture-Driven Development
Co-editor with Terike Haapoja and Michael Sorkin
UR Books, 2016


Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
Co-editor with A.J. Bauer, Cristina Beltran, and Rana Jaleel
Social Text Periscope e-book, 2012
The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace
Co-editor with Monika Krause, Michael Palm, and Mary Nolan
Temple University Press, 2007





