Juliet Schor

Juliet Schor is a Professor of sociology at Boston College. She studies trends in working time and leisure, consumerism, the relationship between work and family, women's issues and economic justice. She received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University and her Ph.D in economics from the University of Massachusetts. Before joining Boston College, she taught at Harvard University for 17 years, in the Department of Economics and the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies. In 2006 she was awarded the Leontief Prize by the Global Development and Environment Institute. She has two children who currently reside in Newton with her, Krishna and Sulakshana. She authored:
* "Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child"
* "The New Consumer Culture"
* "The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure"
* "The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting and the New Consumer"
* "Do Americans Shop too Much?"

She co-edited:
* "The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience"
* "The Consumer Society Reader"
* "Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the 21st Century"

External links

* [http://www2.bc.edu/~schorj/ Boston College faculty listing]
* [http://users.ipfw.edu/ruflethe/american.html The Overworked American] , excerpt
* [http://www.time.com/time/community/transcripts/chattr052098.html Transcript of interview with Time.com about "The Overspent American"] , May, 1998