| The Darjeeling distinction: Labor and justice on fair-trade tea plantations in India S Besky Univ of California Press, 2014 | 410 | 2014 |
| The labor of terroir and the terroir of labor: Geographical Indication and Darjeeling tea plantations S Besky Agriculture and Human Values 31, 83-96, 2014 | 108 | 2014 |
| Can a plantation be fair? Paradoxes and possibilities in fair trade Darjeeling tea certification S Besky Anthropology of Work Review 29 (1), 1-9, 2008 | 106 | 2008 |
| How nature works: Rethinking labor on a troubled planet S Besky, A Blanchette University of New Mexico Press, 2019 | 87* | 2019 |
| Placing plants in territory S Besky, J Padwe Environment and Society 7 (1), 9-28, 2016 | 59 | 2016 |
| Tasting qualities: The past and future of tea S Besky University of California Press, 2020 | 44 | 2020 |
| Fixity: On the inheritance and maintenance of tea plantation houses in Darjeeling, India S Besky American Ethnologist 44 (4), 617-631, 2017 | 43 | 2017 |
| The future of price: communicative infrastructures and the financialization of Indian tea S Besky Cultural Anthropology 31 (1), 4-29, 2016 | 43 | 2016 |
| Looking for work: Placing labor in food studies S Besky, S Brown Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 12 (1-2), 19-43, 2015 | 43 | 2015 |
| Agricultural justice, abnormal justice? An analysis of fair trade's plantation problem S Besky Antipode 47 (5), 1141-1160, 2015 | 38 | 2015 |
| The land in Gorkhaland: On the edges of belonging in Darjeeling, India S Besky Environmental Humanities 9 (1), 18-39, 2017 | 37 | 2017 |
| 5 Colonial Pasts and Fair Trade Futures: Changing Modes of Production and Regulation on Darjeeling Tea Plantations S Besky Fair Trade and Social Justice, 97-122, 2010 | 32 | 2010 |
| Introduction: The naturalization of work S Besky, A Blanchette Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, July 26, 2018 | 29* | 2018 |
| Introduction: The Fragility of Work S Besky, A Blanchette How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet, 1-22, 2019 | 19* | 2019 |
| Tea as hero crop? Embodied algorithms and industrial reform in India S Besky Science as Culture 26 (1), 11-31, 2017 | 17 | 2017 |
| Exhaustion and endurance in sick landscapes: Cheap tea and the work of monoculture in the Dooars, India S Besky How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet, 23-40, 2019 | 15 | 2019 |
| The Plantation's Outsides: The Work of Settlement in Kalimpong, India S Besky Comparative Studies in Society and History 63 (2), 433-463, 2021 | 11 | 2021 |
| Monoculture S Besky Anthropocene unseen: A lexicon, 277-280, 2020 | 10 | 2020 |
| Teawords: experiments with quality in Indian tea production S Besky American Anthropologist 123 (1), 96-107, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
| Empire and indigestion: Materializing tannins in the Indian tea industry S Besky Social Studies of Science 50 (3), 398-417, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |
Jonathan PadweAssociate Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai'iVerified email at hawaii.edu