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 Ph.D in economics at 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. 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

American sociologists