Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States

Nadasen's first book, Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States, was published in 2005, and in recognition of its importance, she received the John Hope Franklin Book Prize.^[10] At the time of its publication, it was the first book to be written on the NWRO for twenty-five years.^[11]

Historian Annelise Orleck described the book as "rich and provocative" whose "greatest achievement ... is to treat the recipient-leaders of this movement [NWRO] seriously as both practical strategists and as the framers of a unique political ideology: a black, feminist vision forged in poverty and fueled by the experiences of motherhood."^[12] However, while praising the depth of archival research in the work, Andrew Fearnley noted that Nadasen's analysis appeared to preclude white and Puerto Rican women's contributions to the movement.^[13]

Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement

Nadasen's 2016 work, Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement, was reviewed by Polly Reed Myers, who described the book as "a welcome addition to the historiography on labor organizing in the postwar period", where "Nadasen reframes the organizational history of domestic labor groups in important ways by placing the voices and stories of African American domestic workers at the center of the narrative".^[14] Meanwhile Keona Ervin described the text as "highly readable" and praised the book for its illumination of the "little-known organizers including Josephine Hulett, Dorothy Bolden, Geraldine Roberts, Edith Barksdale Sloan, and Mary McClendon, and organizations such as the Club from Nowhere, the Household Technicians of America, the Domestic Workers Union, and the Household Workers Organization."^[15]