| The imperial working class makes itself ‘white’: White labourism in Britain, Australia, and South Africa before the First World War J Hyslop Journal of Historical Sociology 12 (4), 398-421, 1999 | 220 | 1999 |
| Political corruption: Before and after apartheid J Hyslop Journal of Southern African Studies 31 (4), 773-789, 2005 | 205 | 2005 |
| The classroom struggle: Policy and resistance in South Africa 1940-1990 J Hyslop (No Title), 1999 | 192 | 1999 |
| White working-class women and the invention of apartheid:‘Purified’Afrikaner nationalist agitation for legislation against ‘mixed’marriages, 1934–9 J Hyslop The Journal of African History 36 (1), 57-81, 1995 | 139 | 1995 |
| The invention of the concentration camp: Cuba, Southern Africa and the Philippines, 1896–1907 J Hyslop South African Historical Journal 63 (2), 251-276, 2011 | 93 | 2011 |
| Why did Apartheid's supporters capitulate?‘Whiteness’, class and consumption in urban South Africa, 1985–1995 J Hyslop Society in transition 31 (1), 36-44, 2000 | 83 | 2000 |
| School Student Movements and State Education Policy: 1972—87 J Hyslop Popular Struggles in South Africa, 183-209, 1988 | 79 | 1988 |
| Steamship Empire: Asian, African and British Sailors in the Merchant Marine c. 1880—1945 J Hyslop Journal of Asian and African Studies 44 (1), 49-67, 2009 | 73 | 2009 |
| The notorious syndicalist: JT Bain, a Scottish rebel in colonial South Africa J Hyslop Jacana Media, 2004 | 66 | 2004 |
| African democracy in the era of globalisation J Hyslop (No Title), 1999 | 57 | 1999 |
| Rethinking worlds of labour: Southern African labour history in international context P Bonner, J Hyslop, L Van Der Walt African Studies 66 (2-3), 137-167, 2007 | 50 | 2007 |
| State education policy and the social reproduction of the urban African working class: the case of the Southern Transvaal 1955–1976 J Hyslop Journal of Southern African Studies 14 (3), 446-476, 1988 | 45 | 1988 |
| A destruction coming in: Bantu education as response to social crisis J Hyslop | 44 | 1989 |
| Schools, unemployment and youth: origins and significance of student youth movements, 1976–1987 J Hyslop Perspectives in education 10 (2), 61-69, 1988 | 43 | 1988 |
| Gandhi, Mandela, and the African Modern J Hyslop Johannesburg: The elusive metropolis, 119-36, 2008 | 41 | 2008 |
| On biography: A response to Ciraj Rassool J Hyslop South African Review of Sociology 41 (2), 104-115, 2010 | 35 | 2010 |
| Food, authority and politics: Student riots in south african schools, 1945-1976 J Hyslop University of the Witwatersrand, African Studies Institute, 1986 | 30 | 1986 |
| Gandhi 1869–1915: The transnational emergence of a public figure J Hyslop The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi, 30-50, 2011 | 29 | 2011 |
| Debatingrace'in South African scholarship D Posel, J Hyslop, N Nieftagodien TRANSFORMATION-DURBAN-, i-i, 2001 | 29 | 2001 |
| Teacher resistance in African education from the 1940s to the 1980s J Hyslop Pedagogy of domination: Toward a democratic education in South Africa, 93-119, 1990 | 27 | 1990 |
