Juliet Schor

Juliet Schor (born 1955) is Professor of sociology at Boston College. She has studied trends in working time, consumerism, the relationship between work and family, women's issues and Economic inequality.

She received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University and her Ph.D in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She taught at Harvard University for 17 years, in the Department of Economics and the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies.

In 1977, Schor was one of several founders of South End Press. Additionally, in 1979 she was a founding member of the Center for Popular Economics.

In 2006 she was awarded the Leontief Prize by the Global Development and Environment Institute.

Currently, Schor is Professor of sociology at Boston College and on the advisory board of the Center for a New American Dream.

She has two children who currently reside in Newton with her, Krishna and Sulakshana. Her husband, Prasannan Parthasarathi is also a professor at Boston College.

In an interview with Peter Shea she talks about her early intellectual formation, her critique of conventional economics, and her decision to write for an audience that includes the general public as well as her colleagues in the academy.

In 1992, Schor's book The Overworked American was a bestseller.

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