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Juliet B. Schor

Juliet B. Schor

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
56
Citations
28388
World Ranking
1831
National Ranking
874

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Public Understanding of Sociology Award, American Sociological Association
  • 2006 - Leontief Prize, Global Development and Environment Institute
  • 1995 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Juliet B. Schor is affiliated with Boston College in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in social sciences and business management. Their work primarily focuses on the sharing economy, digital economy transformations, and issues related to employment and sustainability.

Their research interests span several key topics, including:

  • Sharing Economy and Platforms
  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Taxation and Compliance Studies
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics

Schor's scholarship intersects multiple fields, with main areas of study being social sciences and business, management and accounting. Subfields of particular focus include marketing, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, automotive engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and environment.

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Schor has worked with co-authors such as Steven P. Vallas, Mehmet Cansoy, Isak Ladegaard, J. Steinberger, and Craig J. Thompson.

Their recent academic papers reflect ongoing engagement with the platform and gig economy, exploring themes of dependence, precarity, and the broader sociological implications of digital work. Notable papers include:

  • "Dependence and precarity in the platform economy," 2020, Theory and Society
  • "The Sharing Economy: Rhetoric and Reality," 2021, Annual Review of Sociology

Other works relevant to the context of the sharing economy and platform studies include:

  • "What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy," 2020, Annual Review of Sociology (Steven P. Vallas)
  • "Degrowth can work - here's how science can help," 2022, Nature (Jason Hickel)
  • "Between mutuality, autonomy and domination: rethinking digital platforms as contested relational structures," 2021, Socio-Economic Review (Elke Schüßler)

Among frequent publication venues for Schor are Socio-Economic Review, Annual Review of Sociology, SSRN Electronic Journal, Theory and Society, and Nature.

In addition to journal articles, Schor has contributed to academic books. One publication from Yale University Press is titled Sustainable Lifestyles and the Quest for Plenitude (2020).

Recognition of Schor's work includes several awards:

  • Public Understanding of Sociology Award, American Sociological Association, 2014
  • Leontief Prize, Global Development and Environment Institute, 2006
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1995

Best Publications

  • The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline Of Leisure

    Juliet B. Schor

  • Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design

    Mizuko Ito;Kris Gutiérrez;Sonia Livingstone;Bill Penuel

  • Putting the sharing economy into perspective

    Koen Frenken;Juliet Schor

  • The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience

    Stephen A. Marglin;Juliet B. Schor

  • What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy

    Steven Vallas;Juliet B. Schor

  • The Overworked American

    Juliet B. Schor

  • Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture

    Juliet B. Schor

  • Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth

    Juliet B. Schor

  • Collaborating and connecting: the emergence of the sharing economy

    Juliet B. Schor;Connor J. Fitzmaurice

  • The overspent American : upscaling, downshifting, and the new consumer

    Juliet B. Schor

  • The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need

    Juliet B. Schor

  • The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure.

    Patricia Yancey Martin;Juliet B. Schor

  • DEBATING THE SHARING ECONOMY

    Juliet Schor

  • The golden age of capitalism : reinterpreting the postwar experience

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  • The “sharing” economy: labor, inequality, and social connection on for-profit platforms

    Juliet B. Schor;William Attwood-Charles

  • Empirical tests of status consumption: Evidence from women's cosmetics

    Angela Chao;Juliet B. Schor

  • An emerging eco-habitus: The reconfiguration of high cultural capital practices among ethical consumers:

    Lindsey B Carfagna;Emilie A Dubois;Connor Fitzmaurice;Monique Y Ouimette

  • Does the sharing economy increase inequality within the eighty percent?: findings from a qualitative study of platform providers

    Juliet B. Schor

  • Dependence and precarity in the platform economy.

    Juliet B. Schor;William Attwood-Charles;Mehmet Cansoy;Isak Ladegaard

  • The Underdog Effect: The Marketing of Disadvantage and Determination through Brand Biography

    Neeru Paharia;Anat Keinan;Jill Avery;Juliet B. Schor

  • Paradoxes of openness and distinction in the sharing economy

    Juliet B. Schor;Connor Fitzmaurice;Lindsey B. Carfagna;Will Attwood-Charles

  • The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure.

    Daniel S. Hamermesh;Juliet B. Schor

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew K. Jorgenson
Andrew K. Jorgenson Boston College
Tim Jackson
Tim Jackson University of Surrey
Robert Costanza
Robert Costanza University College London
Eugene A. Rosa
Eugene A. Rosa Washington State University
Richard York
Richard York University of Oregon
William Solecki
William Solecki City University of New York
Torben C. Rick
Torben C. Rick National Museum of Natural History
Koen Frenken
Koen Frenken Utrecht University
Jean E. Rhodes
Jean E. Rhodes University of Massachusetts Boston
Sonia Livingstone
Sonia Livingstone London School of Economics and Political Science

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