Cunningham, Jo E and Cunningham, Stephen ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 (2017) Social Policy and Social Work: An Introduction. Second Edition. Transforming Social Work Practice Series . SAGE, London. ISBN 9781473916555
Cunningham, Stephen ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 and Lavalette, Michael (2016) The School's Out: School Student Strikes in Britain. In: Children and Young People in a Changing World: Action, Agency and Participaton, 23-24 June 2016, Liverpool Hope University. (Unpublished)
Cunningham, S ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 and Lavalette, M (2016) Schools out! The hidden history of Britain’s school student strikes. Bookmarks, London. ISBN 9781910885178
Cunningham, Stephen ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 (2014) Children’s Rights or Employers’ Rights? The ‘Destigmatisation’ of Child Labour. In: Thatcher’s Grandchildren? Politics and Childhood in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137305558
Cunningham, Stephen ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 (2014) The ‘Gissa Job’ School Strike of 1985. In: Mark Our Words, We Will Rise: Episodes in Preston's Radical History. Penniless Press, Preston. ISBN 978-1-78280-257-0
Cunningham, Jo E and Cunningham, Steve ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 (2014) Sociology and Social Work (Second Edition). SAGE. ISBN 978-1-4462-6667-0 (pbk); 978-1-4462-6666-3 (hbk)
Cunningham, Steve ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 and Cunningham, Jo (2012) Social Policy and Social Work: An Introduction. Transforming social work practice . SAGE, Exeter. ISBN 1844453014, 9781844453016
Cunningham, Jo and Cunningham, Steve ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 (2007) ‘No Choice at All’: Destitution or Deportation? A Commentary on the Implementation of Section 9 of the Asylum and Immigration (treatment of claimants, etc) Act 2004. Critical Social Policy, 27 (2). pp. 277-298. ISSN 1461-703X
Tomlinson, Jo and Cunningham, Steve ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 (2006) Children, Social Policy and the State: The Dichotomy of Care and Control. In: Social Policy: A Conceptual and Methodological Introduction. SAGE, London. ISBN 9781412901703
Cunningham, Steve ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 (2006) 'Demographic Time bomb' or 'Apocalyptic Demography': The Great Pensions Debate. In: Social Policy: Theories, Concepts and Issues. SAGE, London, pp. 203-224. ISBN 9781412901703
Cunningham, Steve ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 and Cunningham, Jo E (2005) 'Starve them out': does every child really matter? A commentary on section 9 of the Asylum and Immigration (treatments of claimants, etc) Act 2004. Critical Social Policy, 25 (2). pp. 253-275. ISSN 1461-703X
Cunningham, Steve ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 and Lavalette, Michael (2004) 'Active Citizens' or 'Irresponsible Truants? School Student Strikes Against the War. Critical Social Policy, 24 (2). pp. 255-269. ISSN 0261-0183
Lavalette, Michael and Cunningham, Steve ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 (2004) Globalisation and Child Labour: Protection, Liberation or Anti-Capitalism? In: Labour and Globalisation: Results and Prospects. University of Chicago Press, Liverpool. ISBN 978 -0853238171
Cunningham, Stephen ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 (2002) Reform or Recalcitrance? The Home Office and the Regulation of Child Labour, 1939-1951. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 13 (4). pp. 1-35. ISSN 1362-1572
Cunningham, Stephen ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 and Lavalette, Michael (2002) Children's Rights and Collective Action. In: Children, Welfare and the State. SAGE, London. ISBN 9780761972327
Cunningham, Stephen ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 and Lavalette, MIchael (2002) Sociological perspectives on children: new and old. In: Children, Welfare and the State. SAGE, London. ISBN Pbk: 9780761972334, Hbk: 9780761972327
Cunningham, Stephen ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 (2001) The Civil Service and the Regulation of Child Labour in Twentieth Century Britain. Brood & Rozen: Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis van Sociale Bewegingen, 2001 (4). pp. 53-75. ISSN 1370-7477
Cunningham, Stephen ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 and Lavalette, Michael (2001) Children, Social Policy and the State. In: Social Policy: A Conceptual and Methodological Introduction. SAGE, London.
Cunningham, Stephen ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 (2000) Child labour in Britain 1900 - 1973. Doctoral thesis, University of Central Lancashire.
Cunningham, Stephen ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4242 (1999) The problem that doesn't exist? Child labour in Britain 1918 - 1970. In: A Thing of the Past? Child Labour in Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool. ISBN 0-312-21811-7