Juliet Schor

Juliet B. Schor (born 1955) is an American economist and Sociology Professor at Boston College. She is currently working on a project titled "The Algorithmic Workplace" with a grant from the National Science Foundation. Her husband, Prasannan Parthasarathi, is also a professor at Boston College.

Schor earned a B.A. in Economics magna cum laude from Wesleyan University in 1975 and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1982. Her dissertation is titled "Changes in the Cyclical Variability of Wages: Evidence from Nine Countries, 1955-1980."

Academic work

Early thought While obtaining her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Schor began to explore how employers controlled and regulated employees.

In addition, at an early age, Schor strived to make her work accessible to all. 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.

Journal articles "The Sharing Economy: labor, inequality and sociability on for-profit platforms" (Societal Transitions, 2017) Complicating Conventionalization" (Journal of Marketing Management, 2017) "Does the Sharing Economy Increase Inequality Within the Eighty Percent?: Findings from a Qualitative Study of Platform Providers" (2017, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society) "Paradoxes of Openness and Distinction in the Sharing Economy" (2016, Poetics) "Climate Discourse and Economic Downturns: The case of the United States 2008-2013" (2014, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions)