Improving Poor People

1995

In the Shadow of the Poorhouse

A Social History of Welfare in America

1986

Reconstructing American Education

1987

The "Underclass" Debate

Views from History

1992

The People of Hamilton, Canada West

Family and Class in a Mid-nineteenth-century City

2008

The Price of Citizenship

Redefining the American Welfare State

2001

The Undeserving Poor

1989

W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the City

"The Philadelphia Negro" and Its Legacy

1998

Why Don't American Cities Burn?

2011