Charles Noble - selected publications
The Collapse of Liberalism: Why America Needs A New Left. Baltimore: Rowman and Littlefield. 2004.
“From Neoconservative to New Right: American Conservatives and the Welfare State.” In Michael J. Thompson, ed. Confronting the New Conservatism: The Rise of the New Right in America. New York: New York University Press. Forthcoming, May 2007.
“How Bush Won.” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture. v. 4, no. 1 (Winter 2005).
“What John Kerry Won’t Say About the Two Americas.” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture. v. 3, no. 4. (Fall 2004).
“The Never Ending War on the Welfare State.” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture. v. 3, no. 2 (Spring 2004). Reprinted in Stephen Eric Bronner and Michael J. Thompson, eds. The Logos Reader (Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 2006).
Welfare As We Knew It: A Political History of the American Welfare State. New York: Oxford University Press. 1997 (hardback and paperback). Named "Outstanding Academic Book" by Choice, 1998.
Liberalism at Work: The Rise and Fall of OSHA. Philadelphia. Temple University Press. 1986 (1989 pb).
"Regulating Work in a Capitalist Society." pp. 268-283 in Frank Pearce and Laureen Snider, eds. Corporate Crime and the State. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1995.
"OSHA and the OSH Act." in Robert Paehlke. ed. The Encyclopedia of Conservation and Environmentalism. Garland Books. 1995.
"Work -- The Most Dangerous Environment." pp. 171-178 in Richard Hofrichter. ed. Toxic Struggles: Theory and Practice of Environmental Justice. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers. 1993.
"Keeping OSHA's Feet to the Fire." Technology Review. February/March 1992. pp. 42-51.
"The Struggle for Nature: A Reply to O'Connor and Faber." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. 1990. no. 3. with John Wooding. pp. 163-169. Translated and reprinted in Ecologia Politica. no. 1 (1991).
"OSHA at Twenty." New Solutions. vol. 1. no. 1. Spring, 1990: 30-42. reprinted in Charles Levenstein and John Wooding, eds.Work, Health, and Environment: Old Problems, New Solutions. New York: Guilford Press, 1997.
"Liberalism Redux: A New Antipoverty Policy?" Policy Studies Journal. vol. 17. no. 2 (Winter) 1988-89. pp. 449-456.
"Rebuilding the Regulatory State." pp. 79-110 in John Kushma, Mark Levine, and Carol MacLennan. eds. The State and Democracy: Revitalizing America's Government. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1988.
"Economic Theory in Practice." pp. 266-284 in Frank Fischer and John Forester. eds. Confronting Values in Policy Analysis: The Politics of Criteria. Beverly Hills, Ca. Sage Publications. 1987.
"Wilson's Choice: The Political Origins of the Modern American State." Comparative Politics. 17 (April 1985):313-336.
"Class, State, and Social Reform in America." in Research in Political Economy. 8:(Fall 1985):145-162.
"The Internationalization of Capital and the Limits of the Interventionist State: Toward an Explanation of Macroeconomic Policy Failure." Journal of Political and Military Sociology. 1O (Spring 1982):103-120. with James Hawley.
"The Rationalization of Social Regulation." pp. 73-92 in Alan Stone and Edward J. Harpham. eds. The Political Economy of Public Policy. Beverly Hills, Ca. Sage Publications. 1982.