Books

• Joseph A. McCartin. Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• Joseph A. McCartin and Melvyn Dubofsky. American Labor: A Documentary Collection. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004.
• Joseph A. McCartin. Labor’s Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-21.. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Articles in journals

• Joseph A. McCartin. "Details, Details: Unions, Affirmative Action, and the Deslippe Thesis." Labor: Studies in the Working Class History of the Americas 9.2 (2012): 83-86.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Beyond Human Rights: Understanding and Addressing the Attack on Public Sector Unions." Human Rights Review 13.3 (2012): 399-403.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Response to the Commentators on the Collision Course Book Forum ." Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 9.4 (2012): 51-54.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Pivot Points in a Pivotal Decade: Reflections on Stein’s Seventies." Labor History 52.3 (2011): 336-341.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Convenient Scapegoats: Public Workers Under Assault." Dissent (2011): 45-50.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "‘Score One For the Tough Guy’: The Story Behind the PATCO Cases and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit." Journal of the Federal Circuit Historical Society 5 (2011): 97-108.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Probing the Limits of Rights Discourse in the Obama Era: A Crossroads for Labor and Liberalism." International Labor and Working-Class History 80 (2011): 148-60, 184-88.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Collision Course: How Reagan Broke PATCO to Create the ’Brotherhood of the Downwardly Mobile’." Social Policy 41.4 (2011): 15-21.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "L’Américanisme de Reagan: brève histoire, politiques du patriotism." Cahiers d’histoire:revue d’histoire critique No. 108 (2009): 13-40.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Building Interfaith Worker Justice: Kim Bobo’s Story’." Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 6.1 (2009): 87-105.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "The Force of Faith: An Introduction to the Labor and Religion Issue ." Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas 6.1 (2009): 1-4.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Unexpected Convergence: Values, Assumptions and the Right to Strike in Public and Private Sectors, 1945-2005." Buffalo Law Review 57.3 (2009): 727-765.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "’A Wagner Act for Public Workers’: Labor’s Deferred Dream and the Rise of Conservatism, 1970-1976." Journal of American History 95.1 (2008): 123-148.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "The Andy Stern Riddle." New Labor Forum 16.2 (2007): 169-173.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "The Other Americanism: David J. O’Brien’s Catholic Engagement with U.S. History." U.S. Catholic Historian 25.2 (2007): 79-92.
• James P. McCartin and Joseph A. McCartin. "Working-Class Catholicism: A Call for New Investigations, Dialogue, and Reappraisal." Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 4.2 (2007): 99-110.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Re-Framing the Crisis of U.S. Labor: Rights, Democracy, and Political Economy ." Labour/Le Travail 59 (2007): 133-148.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Bringing the State’s Workers In: Time to Rectify an Imbalanced U.S. Labor Historiography." Labor History 47.1 (2006): 73-94.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "‘Fire the Hell Out of Them’: Sanitation Workers’ Struggles and the Normalization of the Striker Replacement Strategy in the 1970s." Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas 2.3 (2005): 67-92.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Democratizing the Demand for Workers’ Rights: Toward a Reframing of Labor’s Argument." Dissent (2005): 61-66, 70-71.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "What Happened to Industrial Democracy? Thinking Beyond the Current Rights-Based Defense of Organized Labor in the Workplace." Willamette Journal of the Liberal Arts 14 (2004): 19-40.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Estranged Allies on the Margins: On the Ambivalent Response of Labor Historians to Catholic History." U.S. Catholic Historian 21.2 (2003): 114-120.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Power, Politics, and ‘Pessimism of the Intelligence’." Labor History 40 (1999): 345-349.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Industrial Unionism as Liberator or Leash? The Limits of ‘Rank-and-Filism’ in American Labor Historiography." Journal of Social History (1998): 153-163.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Abortive Reconstruction: Federal War Labor Policies, Union Organization, and the Politics of Race, 1917-1919." Journal of Policy History 9.2 (1997): 155-83.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Millhands, Farmers, and the Legacy of Southern Populism." Reviews in American History 22 (1994): 474-479.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Using the ‘Gun Act’: Federal Regulation and the Politics of the Strike Threat during World War I." Labor History 33 (1992): 519-28.

Articles in books

• Joseph A. McCartin and Jean-Christian Vinel. "Compulsory Unionism: Sylvester Petro and the Career of an Anti-Union Idea." The American Right and U.S. Labor: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination. Ed. Nelson Lichtenstein and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012: 226- 251
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Solvents of Solidarity: Political Economy, Collective Action, and the Crisis of Organized Labor, 1968-2005." Rethinking U.S. Labor History: Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756 - 2009. Ed. Donna Haverty-Stacke and Daniel J. Walkowitz. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010: 217-240
• Joseph A. McCartin. "The Labor Movement and Politics." Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. Ed. Michael Kazin, Rebecca Edwards, and Adam Rothman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009: 451-459
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Turnabout Years: Public Sector Unionism and the Fiscal Crisis." Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s. Ed. Bruce Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008: 210-226
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Managing Discontent: The Life and Career of Leamon Hood, Black Public Employee Union Activist." The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights Since Emancipation. Ed. Eric Arnesen. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Approaching Extinction? The Declining Use of the Strike Weapon in the United States, 1945-2000." Strikes Around the World, 1968-2005: Case Studies of Fifteen Countries. Ed. Sjaak van der Velden, Heiner Dribbusch, Dave Lyddon, and Kurt Vandaele. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, 2007: 133-154
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Utraque Unum: Finding My Way as a Catholic and a Historian." Faith and the Historian: Catholic Perspectives. Ed. Nick Salvatore. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
• Joseph A. McCartin. "La Première Guerre mondiale et la naissance des relations sociales aux États-Unis." Le XXe Siècle des Guerres. Ed. Pietro Causarano. Paris: Les Editions de Atelier, 2004: 228-236
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Congress and the First World War." The American Congress: The Building of Democracy. Ed. Julian Zelizer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004: 428-442
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Labor." Blackwell Companion to 20th Century America. Ed. Stephen Whitfield. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2004: 246-265
• Joseph A. McCartin. "Labor Movement." The Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Paul Finkelman. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001: Vol. 2, pp. 158-163
• Joseph A. McCartin. "An American Feeling: Workers, Managers, and the Struggle Over Industrial Democracy during the World War I Era." Industrial Democracy in America: The Ambiguous Promise. Ed. Nelson Lichtenstein and Howell John Harris. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993: 67-86

Edited books

• Leon Fink, Joan Sangster, and Joseph A. McCartin, ed. Workers In Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2013.
• Michael Kazin and Joseph A. McCartin, ed. Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
• Joseph A. McCartin, ed. Melvyn Dubofsky, WE SHALL BE ALL: A HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.