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2006     Off the books : the underground economy of the urban poor by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
2005     Made in China : women factory workers in a global workplace by Pun Ngai
2004     Villa Victoria : the transformation of social capital in a Boston barrio by Mario Luis Small
2003     Flat broke with children : women in the age of welfare reform by Sharon Hays
2002     The job training charade by Gordon Lafer
            Garbage wars : the struggle for environmental justice in Chicago by David N. Pellow
2001     Doméstica : immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
2000     The dignity of working men : morality and the boundaries of race, class, and immigration by Michéle Lamont
1999     Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier
1998     The making of the unborn patient : a social anatomy of fetal surgery by Monica J. Casper
1997     Mean streets : youth crime and homelessness by John Hagan and Bill McCarthy
1996     Impure science : AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge by Steven Epstein
1995     In search of respect : selling crack in El Barrio by Philippe Bourgois
            Black wealth/white wealth : a new perspective on racial inequality by Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro
            (10th anniversary edition, 2006)
1994     What machines can't do : politics and technology in the industrial enterprise by Robert Thomas
1993     Checkerboard Square : culture and resistance in a homeless community by David Wagner
1992     Life is hard : machismo, danger, and the intimacy of power in Nicaragua by Roger Lancaster
1991     Landscapes of power : from Detroit to Disney World by Sharon Zukin
1989     Freedom Summer by Douglas McAdam
            Whose keeper? : social science and moral obligation by Alan Wolfe
1988     Socialist entrepreneurs : embourgeoisement in rural Hungary by Ivan Szeleny
            Stubborn children : controlling delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981 by John Sutton
1987     The truly disadvantaged : the inner city, the underclass, and public policy by William J. Wilson
1986     The contentious French by Charles Tilly
            The secret trauma : incest in the lives of girls and women by Diana E. H. Russell
1985     Pricing the priceless child : the changing social value of children by Viviana A. Zelizer
1984     The inner circle : large corporations and the rise of business political activity in the U.S. and U.K. by Michael Useem
            Morality and power in a Chinese village by Richard Madsen
1983     The city and the grassroots : a cross-cultural theory of urban social movements by Manuel Castello
1982     The social transformation of American medicine by Paul Starr
1981     Father-daughter incest by Judith Lewis Herman
1980     Street-level bureaucracy : dilemmas of the individual in public services by Michael Lipsky
1979     States and social revolutions : a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China by Theda Skocpol
1978     The working class in welfare capitalism : work, unions, and politics in Sweden by Walter Korpi
1977     Men and women of the corporation by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
1976     The myth of marginality : urban poverty and politics in Rio de Janeiro by Janice E. Perlman
1975     Advocacy & objectivity : a crisis in the professionalization of American social science, 1865-1905 by Mary O. Furner
1974     Labor and monopoly capital; the degradation of work in the twentieth century by Harry Braverman
1973     Private lives and public surveillance : social control in the computer age by James B. Rule
            The dialectics of legal repression; Black rebels before the American courts by Isaac D. Balbus
1972     Theories of poverty and underemployment : orthodox, radical, and dual labor market perspectives by David M. Gordon
1971     Regulating the poor; the functions of public welfare by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward
1970     Stations of the lost; the treatment of skid row alcoholics by Jacqueline P. Wiseman
1969     Tearoom trade : impersonal sex in public places by Laud Humphreys
1968     The social order of the slum; ethnicity and territory in the inner city by Gerald D. Suttles
1967     Tally's corner; a study of Negro streetcorner men by Elliot Liebow
            Delinquency research; an appraisal of analytical methods by Travis Hirschi and Hanan C. Selvin
1966     Justice without trial; law enforcement in democratic society by Jerome H. Skolnick
1965     The new utopians, a study of system design and social change by Robert Boguslaw
1964     Delinquency and drift by David Matza