BOOKS PUBLISHED:

Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995) (Michael Harrington Award)

Tales of the State: Narrative in U.S. Politics and Public Policy (Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997) (edited with Philip T. Neisser)

Welfare Reform: A Race to the Bottom? (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999) (edited with Samuel H. Beer)

After Welfare: The Culture of Postindustrial Social Policy (New York: New York University Press, 2000)

Praxis for the Poor: Piven and Cloward and the Future of Social Science in Social Welfare (New York: New York University Press, 2002)

Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform, Sanford F. Schram, Joe Soss and Richard Fording, eds. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003).

Welfare Discipline: Discourse, Governance, and Globalization (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006).

Making Political Science Matter: Debating Knowledge, Research and Method (New York: New York University Press, 2006).

Change Research: A Case Study on Collaborative Methods for Social Workers and Advocates (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).

Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Real Social Science (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).