| Immigrants Unions & The New Us Labor Mkt I Ness Temple University Press, 2010 | 213 | 2010 |
| Ours to Master and to Own: Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present I Ness, D Azzellini Haymarket Books, 2011 | 126 | 2011 |
| Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class I Ness | 113 | 2015 |
| Organizing immigrant communities: UNITE’s workers center strategy I Ness Organizing to win: New research on union strategies, 87-101, 1998 | 68 | 1998 |
| New forms of worker organization: The syndicalist and autonomist restoration of class-struggle unionism S Lynd PM Press, 2014 | 64 | 2014 |
| The new urban immigrant workforce: Innovative models for labor organizing S Jayaraman, I Ness ME Sharpe, 2005 | 62 | 2005 |
| Encyclopedia of education and human development SJ Farenga, D Ness Routledge, 2015 | 60 | 2015 |
| Central labor councils and the revival of American unionism: Organizing for justice in our communities I Ness, S Eimer ME Sharpe, 2001 | 48 | 2001 |
| Guest workers and resistance to US corporate despotism I Ness University of Illinois Press, 2011 | 47 | 2011 |
| New York City syringe exchange: an overview D Paone, DC Des Jarlais, S Caloir, PB Friedmann, I Ness, SR Friedman Proceedings of a Workshop on Needle Exchange and Bleach Distribution …, 1994 | 45 | 1994 |
| The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present I Ness, Y Williams Yohuru Williams.“The Black Panthers,” for The International Encyclopedia of …, 2008 | 43 | 2008 |
| The encyclopedia of global human migration I Ness, PS Bellwood Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 | 42 | 2013 |
| The encyclopedia of strikes in American history A Brenner, B Day, I Ness ME Sharpe, 2009 | 42 | 2009 |
| Encyclopedia of American social movements I Ness Routledge, 2015 | 41 | 2015 |
| Choke points J Alimahomed-Wilson, I Ness University of Chicago Press, 2018 | 37 | 2018 |
| The global prehistory of human migration I Ness John Wiley & Sons, 2014 | 37 | 2014 |
| Global migration: The basics B Hanlon, TJ Vicino Routledge, 2014 | 33 | 2014 |
| Teamsters and turtles?: US progressive political movements in the 21st century FL Davis, M Haussman, C Kelly, R Hayduk, J Lefkowitz, I Ness, LK Olson, ... Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 | 31 | 2003 |
| The Oxford handbook of migration crises C Menjívar, M Ruiz, I Ness Oxford University Press, 2019 | 27 | 2019 |
| The Palgrave encyclopedia of imperialism and anti-imperialism Z Cope, I Ness Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 | 27 | 2016 |
