| The dignity of job-seeking men: Boundary work among immigrant day laborers G Purser Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 38 (1), 117-139, 2009 | 121 | 2009 |
| The circle of dispossession: Evicting the urban poor in Baltimore G Purser Critical Sociology 42 (3), 393-415, 2016 | 79 | 2016 |
| “Still doin’time:” Clamoring for work in the day labor industry G Purser WorkingUSA 15 (3), 397-415, 2012 | 62 | 2012 |
| Eviction lab misses the mark D Aiello, L Bates, T Graziani, C Herring, M Maharawal, E McElroy, P Phan, ... Shelter Force, 2018 | 39 | 2018 |
| The labour of liminality G Purser Labour, Capital and Society/Travail, capital et société, 10-35, 2012 | 35 | 2012 |
| Waiting for work: An ethnography of a day labor agency G Purser | 32 | 2006 |
| “Work as unto the Lord”: Enhancing employability in an evangelical job-readiness program G Purser, B Hennigan Qualitative Sociology 40, 111-133, 2017 | 31 | 2017 |
| Disciples and dreamers: job readiness and the making of the US working class G Purser, B Hennigan Dialectical Anthropology 42, 149-161, 2018 | 23 | 2018 |
| Jobless and Godless: Religious neoliberalism and the project of evangelizing employability in the US B Hennigan, G Purser Ethnography 19 (1), 84-104, 2018 | 19 | 2018 |
| Milked: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in New York State C Fox, R Fuentes, FO Valdez, G Purser, K Sexsmith Workers' Center of Central New York, 2017 | 16 | 2017 |
| Labor on demand: Dispatching the urban poor GW Purser University of California, Berkeley, 2009 | 12 | 2009 |
| «Que du sale boulot» Risques et accidents corporels chez les travailleurs journaliers aux États-Unis G Purser Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 165 (4), 52-71, 2006 | 10 | 2006 |
| “A program, not the projects”: Reentry in the post-public housing era M Hamlin, G Purser Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 50 (6), 806-834, 2021 | 9 | 2021 |
| Day labor agencies,“Backdoor” hires, and the spread of unfree labor G Purser Anthropology of Work Review 40 (1), 5-14, 2019 | 8 | 2019 |
| Both Sides of the Paycheck: Recommending Thrift to the Poor in Job Readiness Programs B Hennigan, G Purser Critical Sociology, 2020 | 5 | 2020 |
| “Bodies in the Building”: Incarceration’s Afterlife in a Reentry Housing Facility G Purser, M Hamlin Social Service Review 96 (2), 169-195, 2022 | 4 | 2022 |
| Precarious work G Purser Contexts 12 (4), 74-76, 2013 | 4 | 2013 |
| ‘You Put Up with Anything’: On the Vulnerability and Exploitability of Formerly Incarcerated Workers G Purser Labor and Punishment: Work in and out of Prison, 213-234, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
| Day labor agencies and the logic and landscape of neoliberal poverty management: Retail, Neoliberal Urbanism, and the" Fight for 15" GW Purser The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban …, 2017 | 1 | 2017 |
| Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age G Purser Labour/Le Travail 73, 382-384, 2014 | 1 | 2014 |
