- The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960
- Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910 (Working Class in American History)
- We Will Rise in Our Might: Workingwomen's Voices from Nineteenth-Century New England (Reading Women Writing)
- Surviving Hard Times: The Working People of Lowell
- Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England