Books:
Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash (1999)
Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market (1989)
Never Done: A History of American Housework (1982)
Edited Volumes
Sound in the Era of Mechanical Reproduction. Editor, with David Suisman. Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009
Commodifying Everything: Relationships of the Market. Editor. Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture, Routledge, 2003.
Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society , rev. ed., v. II. Worth Publishers, 2000. With Nelson Lichtenstein and Roy Rosenzweig
Getting and Spending: American and European Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Editor, with Charles McGovern and Matthias Judt
Social Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany: A Dialogue in Documents, 1885 - 1933. Cornell Univ. Press, 1998. Editor, with Kathryn Kish Sklar and Anja Schü
Washington: Images of a State’s Heritage. Spokane: Melior, for the Washington Centennial Commission, 1988. With Carlos Schwantes, David Nicandri, and Katherine Morrissey.
Articles and Book Chapters
“What’s in Your Microwave Oven,” Opinion page, New York Times, April 15, 2017
“Snake Oil Revisited: Household Medicine and the Condescension of Posterity,” Process: A Blog for American History, March 21, 2017
"Ida B. Wells: Southern Horrors (1892), oder Von der Notwendigkeit eines starken Magens,” in Olaf Stieglitz and Jürgen Martschuket,” Race and Sex: Eine Geschichte der Neuzeit (Neofelis Verlag, 2016).
“Woolworth to Wal-Mart: Mass Merchandising and the Changing Culture of Consumption, in Nelson Lichtenstein," Wal-Mart: The Face of 21st C. Capitalism (New Press, 2005), reprinted in Deborah C. Andrews, Shopping: Material Culture Perspectives(University of Delaware Press, 2014).
“Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit,” in R. Solinger, ed., Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit exhibition catalog, Bennington Museum and others, 2008
“Sponsorship and Snake Oil: Medicine Shows and Public Culture,” in Marguerite S. Shaffer, ed., Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
“Commodifying Lydia Pinkham: The Woman, The Company, The Medicine,” American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Clinical Review, July/August 2007
“Comments on Lichtenstein, ‘Supply Chains, Workers’ Chains,’” Labor: Studies in Working - Class History of the Americas, vol. 4, Spring, 2007.
“Toward a History of Trashmaking,” in R. D’Arienzo and C. Younès, Recycler L’Urbain: Pour une Écolo-gie des Milieux Habités(Métis Presses, 2014)
“Complications and Complexities: Reflections on Twentieth-Century European Recycling,” Contemporary European History, 22, 3 (2013).
“A Historical Herbal: Household Medicine and Herbal Commerce in a Developing Consumer Society,” in U. Spiekerman & H. Berghoff, Decoding Modern Consumer Societies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
