Life as Surplus (2008) traced the links between the history of biotechnology and the rise of neoliberalism, looking at scientific, economic, political, and cultural elements.

[3] Clinical Labor (2014), published with Australian sociologist Catherine Waldby, focused on the embodied labor of those working as donors and research subjects in the field of assisted reproduction and experimental drug trials.

[7][8] The importance of the family as the responsible for this structural role would have facilitated the alliance between seemingly incompatible neoliberal and neoconservative political actors.

[9][1] Kate Doyle Griffiths criticized the book's engagement with social reproduction theory.

[10] In 2024 Cooper published Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance, named a New Statesman Best Book of the Academic Presses.