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Juliet Schor Ph.D. is a professor in the Sociology Department at Boston College. Professor Schor's current research areas are consumer society, trends in work and leisure, and the relationship between work and family. Schor is the author of a numerous articles and books including The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting and the New Consumer, and The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience (co-edited with Stephen Marglin). Her two most recent books are Do Americans Shop Too Much? and The Consumer Society Reader(co-edited with Douglas Holt). Schor teaches courses on consumer society, political economy, and gender. She was a 1995 Guggenheim Fellow for a project on consumer spending. She is also a founding member of the Center for a New American Dream, an organization devoted to making U.S. lifestyles more sustainable.

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