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, Sanford F. Schram and Brian Caterino eds. (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) (co-authored with Corey Shdaimah and Roland Stahl).

Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race, Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording and Sanford F. Schram (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis, Bent Flyvbjerg, Todd Landman and Sanford F. Schram, eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Becoming a Footnote: An Activist-Scholar Finds His Voice, Learns to Write, and Survives Academia (Albany: SUNY Press, 2013).

The Return of Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).

Neoliberalizing the University: Implications for Democracy, Sanford F. Schram, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2016).

Rethinking Neoliberalism: Resisting the Disciplinary Regime, Sanford F. Schram and Marianna Pavlovskaya, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2017).

Hard White: The Mainstreaming of Racism in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020) (co-authored with Richard C. Fording).