| Accumulation by dispossession and the informal economy–Struggles over knowledge, being and waste at a Soweto garbage dump M Samson Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 33 (5), 813-830, 2015 | 163 | 2015 |
| Refusing to be cast aside: Waste pickers organising around the world M Samson Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), 2009 | 147 | 2009 |
| Wasted citizenship? Reclaimers and the privatised expansion of the public sphere M Samson Africa development 34 (3-4), 2009 | 65 | 2009 |
| Informal economy monitoring study sector report: Waste pickers S Dias, M Samson Cambridge, MA, USA: WIEGO, 2016 | 62 | 2016 |
| Dumping on women: gender and privatisation of waste management M Samson South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu), 2003 | 55 | 2003 |
| Producing privatization: Re‐articulating race, gender, class and space M Samson Antipode 42 (2), 404-432, 2010 | 51 | 2010 |
| Reclaiming reusable and recyclable Materials in Africa: a critical review of English language literature M Samson Cambridge: WIEGO, 2010 | 46 | 2010 |
| Forging a new conceptualization of “The Public” in waste management M Samson Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, 2015 | 45 | 2015 |
| Whose frontier is it anyway? Reclaimer “integration” and the battle over Johannesburg’s waste-based commodity frontier M Samson Capitalism Nature Socialism 31 (4), 60-75, 2020 | 43 | 2020 |
| Reclaiming livelihoods: the role of reclaimers in municipal waste management systems M Samson groundwork, 2008 | 41 | 2008 |
| Rechazando a ser excluidos: la organización de los recicladores en el mundo M Samson Buenos Aires: Editado por Melaine, 2009 | 39 | 2009 |
| When public works programmes create'second economy'conditions: part two: policy and political choices M Samson Africanus 37 (2), 244-256, 2007 | 31 | 2007 |
| (Sub) imperial South Africa? reframing the debate M Samson Routledge 36 (119), 93-103, 2009 | 29 | 2009 |
| Organizing in the informal economy: a case study of the municipal waste management industry in South Africa M Samson, J Creation International Labour Office, 2004 | 27 | 2004 |
| Reclaiming reusable and recyclable materials in Africa M Samson Women in Informal Economy Globalising and Organising. Cambridge …, 2010 | 23 | 2010 |
| Trashing solidarity: The production of power and the challenges to organizing informal reclaimers M Samson International Labor and Working-Class History 95, 34-48, 2019 | 22 | 2019 |
| Not just recycling the crisis: Producing value at a Soweto garbage dump M Samson Historical Materialism 25 (1), 36-62, 2017 | 22 | 2017 |
| Contested understandings of reclaimer integration—Insights from a failed Johannesburg pilot project MM Sekhwela, M Samson Urban Forum 31 (1), 21-39, 2020 | 21 | 2020 |
| The social uses of the law at a Soweto garbage dump: Reclaiming the law and the state in the informal economy M Samson Current Sociology 65 (2), 222-234, 2017 | 21 | 2017 |
| Rescaling the state, restructuring social relations: Local government transformation and waste management privatization in post-apartheid Johannesburg M Samson International Feminist Journal of Politics 10 (1), 19-39, 2008 | 18 | 2008 |
