| Youth politics: Waiting and envy in a South African informal settlement HJ Dawson Journal of Southern African Studies 40 (4), 861-882, 2014 | 100 | 2014 |
| Patronage from below: Political unrest in an informal settlement in South Africa HJ Dawson African Affairs 113 (453), 518-539, 2014 | 96 | 2014 |
| Labour, laziness and distribution: work imaginaries among the South African unemployed HJ Dawson, E Fouksman Africa 90 (2), 229-251, 2020 | 56 | 2020 |
| “Making plans through people”: the social embeddedness of informal entrepreneurship in urban South Africa HJ Dawson Social Dynamics 47 (3), 389-402, 2021 | 30 | 2021 |
| Living, not just surviving: The politics of refusing low-wage jobs in urban South Africa HJ Dawson Economy and Society, 1-23, 2022 | 25 | 2022 |
| HIV/AIDS, the erosion of social capital and the collapse of rural livelihoods in the Nkomazi district of South Africa HJ Dawson African Journal of AIDS Research 12 (4), 185-194, 2013 | 18 | 2013 |
| Monitoring the right of access to adequate housing in South Africa HJ Dawson, D McLaren Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute, Working Paper 8, 2014 | 14 | 2014 |
| ‘Be your own boss’: entrepreneurial dreams on the urban margins of South Africa HJ Dawson Beyond the Wage: Ordinary work in Diverse Economies, 115-138, 2021 | 11 | 2021 |
| Monitoring the right of access to adequate housing in South Africa: An analysis of the policy effort, resource allocation and expenditure and enjoyment of the right to housing HJ Dawson, D McLaren Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute working paper 8, c2014, 2014 | 10 | 2014 |
| A Framework for Monitoring and Evaluating the Progressive Realisation of Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa HJ Dawson, D McLaren Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute, 2015 | 7 | 2015 |
| Why South Africa needs to ensure income security beyond the pandemic HJ Dawson, E Fouksman The Conversation, 2020 | 5 | 2020 |
| Protests, party politics and patronage: A view from Zandspruit informal settlement, Johannesburg HJ Dawson Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective, 118-133, 2017 | 4 | 2017 |
| Faking it or making it: the politics of consumption and the precariousness of social mobility in South Africa HJ Dawson Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 29 (1), 145-162, 2023 | 3 | 2023 |
| Work as we knew it has changed. Time to think beyond the wage H Dawson, E Fouksman, W Monteith The Conversation, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
| Redistributive politics and the temporalities of crisis: Reconfiguring social protection in a post-pandemic South Africa E Fouksman, HJ Dawson Global Social Policy 24 (2), 242-260, 2024 | 2 | 2024 |
| The remaking of working classes: digital labour platforms and workers’ struggles in the Global South R Castel-Branco, HJ Dawson Work in the Global Economy 3 (2), 109-115, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
| BOOK REVIEW: Fractured Militancy: Precarious Resistance in South Africa after Racial Inclusion HJ Dawson MOBILIZATION 28 (3), 2023 | | 2023 |
| Father-Child (dis) connections: Expectations and Practices of Young un (der) employed Fathers in Johannesburg HJ Dawson Men and Masculinities 26 (2), 270–287, 2023 | | 2023 |
| The Future of Work in the Digital Age R Castel-Branco, S Cook, H Dawson, E Webster Global Dialogue 11 (3), 2021 | | 2021 |
| Stereotypes about young jobless South Africans are wrong: what they’re really up to HJ Dawson The Conversation, 2021 | | 2021 |
