Juliet Schor

Juliet B. Schor is a professor of sociology at Boston College. Her books include the New York Times best seller The Overworked American . She is also the author of The Overspent American, Sustainable Lifestyles and the Quest for Plenitude, and True Wealth. Schor has written extensively on issues of working time, consumption, and environmental sustainability. Since 2011 Schor has been studying the "sharing economy," including both large platforms and smaller community initiatives. Schor is a...See more

Juliet B. Schor is a professor of sociology at Boston College. Her books include the New York Times best seller The Overworked American . She is also the author of The Overspent American, Sustainable Lifestyles and the Quest for Plenitude, and True Wealth. Schor has written extensively on issues of working time, consumption, and environmental sustainability. Since 2011 Schor has been studying the "sharing economy," including both large platforms and smaller community initiatives. Schor is a former Guggenheim Fellow, Radcliffe Fellow, and Brookings Institution Fellow, and in 2014 she received the American Sociological Association's award for Public Understanding of Sociology. Schor is the chair of the board of directors of the Better Future Project, the parent organization of 350MA, a large climate activist organization in Massachusetts. She co-teaches "Planet in Peril: The History and Future of Human Impacts on the Planet." See less