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JULIET B. SCHOR
Department of Sociology ph: 617-552-4056Boston College fax: 617-552-4283519 McGuinn Hall email: [email protected] Commonwealth AvenueChestnut Hill, MA 02467
PERSONAL DATA Born November 9, 1955; citizenship, U.S.A.
POSITIONS
Senior Scholar, Center for Humans and Nature, 2011.
Professor of Sociology, Boston College, July 2001-present. Department Chair, July 2005-2008.
Visiting Professor, Yale School of Environment and Forestry, Spring 2010.
Senior Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Director of Studies, Women's Studies, Harvard University, 1997-July 2001. Acting Chair, 1998-1999, 2000-2001.
Professor, Economics of Leisure Studies, University of Tilburg, 1995-2001.
Senior Lecturer on Economics and Director of Studies in Women’s Studies, Harvard University, 1992-1996.
Associate Professor of Economics, Harvard University, 1989-1992.
Research Advisor, Project on Global Macropolicy, World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), United Nations, 1985-1992.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University, 1984-1989.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University, 1983-84.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Williams College, 1981-83.
Research Fellow, Brookings Institution, 1980-81.
Teaching Fellow, University of Massachusetts, 1976-79.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Economics, University of Massachusetts, 1982.
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Dissertation: "Changes in the Cyclical Variability of Wages: Evidence from Nine Countries, 1955-1980"
B.A., Economics, Wesleyan University, 1975 (Magna Cum Laude)
HONORS AND AWARDS
Herbert Spencer Lecturer, Oxford University, March 2009.
Friedson Lecturer, New York University Sociology Department, January 2007.
Leontief Prize for Expanding the Frontiers of Economic Thought, Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts, October 2006.
George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language, for The Overspent American, National Council of Teachers of English, 1998.
Citation of Excellence, ANBAR Electronic Intelligence, for article on “Empirical Tests of Status Consumption,” Journal of Economic Psychology, 1998.
Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1995-96.
Maurer-Stump Award, Reading-Berks Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, 1994.
The Overworked American was chosen for: Princeton University Library's Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics in 1991; Business Week, best business books of 1992; Los Angeles Times, best business books of 1992; New York Times, notable books of 1992; Boston Globe, Editor's Choice for non-fiction books of 1992; The Progressive, best books of 1992; New York Times, noteworthy paperbacks, June 1993.
Brookings Research Fellowship in Economic Studies, 1980-81.
Distinguished Teacher Award, University of Massachusetts, 1978.
GRANTS
MacArthur Foundation, 2011-2013.
Research Incentive Grant, Boston College, 2010.
The Philanthropic Collaborative, Inc. 1999-2009.
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Merck Family Fund, 1994-95.
Global Stewardship Initiative, Pew Charitable Trusts, 1994-95.
Curriculum Innovation Fund, Harvard University, 1993.
American Express Fund for Curricular Development in Ethics, Harvard University, 1990.
Economic Policy Institute, 1989.
Warburg Fund, Harvard University, 1987.
Harvard Institute for Economic Research, Harvard University, 1986.
Clark Fund, Harvard University, 1985-1989, 1991, 1993.
BOOKS
Consumerism and Its Discontents (New York: Oxford University Press), essay collection, forthcoming 2011.
Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth (The Penguin Press) May 2010. Australian edition (Scribe) 2010. Japanese edition (Iwanami Shobo) 2010. Korean edition (Wisdomhouse Publishing) 2010 and Chinese edition, 2010. Paperback edition retitled True Wealth: how and why millions of Americans are creating a time-rich, ecologically-light, small-scale, high-satisfaction economy (Penguin 2011).
Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture (New York: Scribner), September 2004. (excerpted in Brain, Child magazine, Summer 2004, Newark Star-Ledger, September 2004, Boston College Magazine, Fall 2004, and as “Age Compression,” Real Essays, 3e, editor Susan Anker (New York: St Martins), 2008.) Paperback edition 2005. Italian Edition (Apogeo) 2005. Korean edition (Hainaim) 2005. Spanish edition (Ediciones Paidos) 2006. Chinese edition (Commonwealh Magazine Co.) 2006. Indonesian (Marjin Kiri) 2009. Brazilian (Editora Gente) 2010. Thai (Foundation for Children) 2010. Japanese (Aspect Corporation) 2010. Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the 21st Century, eds., Juliet B. Schor and Betsy Taylor (Boston: Beacon Press), 2002.
The Consumer Society: A Reader, eds., Douglas Holt and Juliet B. Schor, (New York: New Press), 2000.
Do Americans Shop Too Much? (Boston: Beacon Press), 2000. (Excerpt reprinted in Global History Since 1950, Edward Farmer. 2007 Kendall/Hunt).
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The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting and the New Consumer, June 1998. (New York: Basic Books). Paperback Edition. (New York: HarperCollins), 1999. Japanese edition (Tokyo: Iwanami Shobo), 2000. Video version entitled The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need, produced by Media Education Foundation, September 2003. Chinese edition 2010.
Travail, une revolution a venir, Mille et une nuits (with Domique Meda).
A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century, revised edition of 1995 pamphlet, Seven Stories Press, 1998. Reprinted in The New American Crisis: Radical Analyses of the Problems Facing America Today, eds. Greg Ruggiero and Stuart Sahulka (New York: The New Press) 1995. Korean edition by Mosek Publishing Company (Seoul), 2003.
The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, (New York: Basic Books) January, 1992. Paperback edition 1993. Japanese edition (Tokyo: Mado-Sha) 1993. Spanish edition 1995. Chinese edition 2009. Chapter two reprinted in Anita Garey and Karen Hansen, Families: Kinship and Domestic Politics in the U.S., (Philadelphia: Temple University Press) 1997. Excerpted in Henri Nouwen et al, Simpler Living Compassionate Life (Denver: Living the Good News) 1999. Excerpted in Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon, eds., Signs of Life in the U.S.A.: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers (New York:Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2003, pp. 606-617), and X.J. Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy and Marcia F. Muth, eds., The Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader 9e, New York:Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2010).
Capital, the State and Labour: A Global Perspective, ed., Juliet B. Schor and Jong-il You, (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar), 1995.
Financial Openness and National Policy Autonomy, eds., Tariq Banuri and Juliet B. Schor, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press Imprint), 1992.
The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience, eds., Stephen A. Marglin and Juliet B. Schor, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press Imprint), 1989. Paperback edition 1992. Japanese edition 1993.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
“The Underdog Effect: The Marketing of Disadvantage through Brand Biography,” Journal of Consumer Research, 37(5), February 2011. (with Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan and Jill Avery).
“Combating Consumerism and Capitalism: A Decade of No Logo” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 38(3/4): 299-301. Fall/Winter 2010.
“Morality and Critique in Consumer Studies,” Journal of Consumer Culture, 10:274-291, 2010.
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“The Strategic Use of Brand Biographies,” Research in Consumer Behavior, vol 4:213-229, (with Jill Avery, Neeru Paharia and Anat Keinan), 2010.
“Mental Health and Children’s Consumer Culture,” Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47(5):486-490, May 2008.
“In Defense of Consumer Critique: Re-visiting the Consumption Debates of the 20th Century,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 611:16-30, May 2007. Reprinted in Alan Warde, Consumption (Los Angeles: SAGE) 2010. “From Tastes Great to Cool: Children’s Food Marketing and the Rise of the Symbolic,” Journal of Medicine, Law and Ethics, 35(1):10-21, Spring 2007. (with Margaret Ford).
“Tackling Turbo Consumption: An Interview,” Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 34:45-55, Autumn 2006. (Reprinted in Special Issue of Cultural Studies, Sam Binkley and Jo Littler, eds., forthcoming 2008.)
“Prices and Quantities: Unsustainable Consumption and the Global Economy,” Ecological Economics, 55(3), November 2005. (reprinted in Recent Developments in Ecological Economics, eds. Juan Martinez-Alier and Inge Røpke, Edward Elgar 2007).
"Sustainable Consumption and Worktime Reduction," Journal of Industrial Ecology, Special Issue on Sustainable Consumption, 9(1):37-50, 2005.
“Interview with Juliet Schor” (by Douglas Holt), Journal of Consumer Culture, 5(1):5-21, 2005.
“From Obscurity to People Magazine,” contribution to Public Sociologies: A Symposium from Boston College, lead author Michael Burawoy, Social Problems, 51(1):121-124, February 2004.
“Older Consumers and the Ecological Dilemma,” The Age Explosion: Baby Boomers and Beyond, Harvard Generations Policy Journal, 1:79-90, Winter 2004.
“The Commodification of Childhood: Tales from the Advertising Front Lines,” Hedgehog Review, 5(2): 7-23, Summer 2003:
“Understanding the New Consumerism: Inequality, Emulation and the Erosion of Well-Being,” Tijdschrift voor Sociologie, 23(1):10-20, 2002. (in Flemish translation). Reprinted in Rotman Magazine, (University of Toronto Business School), special issue entitled “The All-Consuming Issue,” Spring 2008.
“The Triple Imperative: Global Ecology, Poverty and Worktime Reduction,” Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 45:2-17, 2001.
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“The New Politics of Consumption,” Boston Review 24(3-4):4-9, Summer 1999. Reprinted in The Contemporary Reader, eighth edition, Gary Goshgarian, Longman 2004; Voluntary Simplicity: Responding to Consumer Culture, eds. Daniel Doherty and Amitai Etzioni (Lanham,MD: Rowman and Littlefield) 2003:65-82; Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture, ed., Samuel Alexander (Auckland, NZ: Stead and Daughter’s ), 2009, pp. 253-270; Social Science Library:Frontier Thinking in Sustainable Development and Human Well-Being (GDAE, Tufts University), 2009; Gender, Race and Class in Media, Gail Dines and Jean Humez, eds, (second and third editions, Sage 2002, 2010).
"Empirical Tests of Status Consumption: Evidence from Women's Cosmetics," Journal of Economic Psychology, 19(1):107-131, 1998, (with Angela Chao).
"Beyond Work and Spend," Vrijtijd Studies, 16(1):7-20, 1998.
"Work, Free Time and Consumption," Time and Society, 7(1):119-128, 1998. Reprinted in Replika, in Hungarian Translation, Fall 2010.
"What's Wrong with Consumer Capitalism: The Joyless Economy after Twenty Years," Critical Review, 10(4);495-508, Fall 1996.
"The Federal Reserve-Treasury Accord and the Construction of the Postwar Monetary Regime," Social Concept, 1995, (with Gerald A. Epstein).
"Work, Time and Money: New Policies for America," Vrijetijd en Samenleving, 12(3):9-22, November 1995.
"Worktime in Contemporary Context: Amending the Fair Labor Standards Act," Chicago-Kent Law Review, 70(100):100-115, 1995.
"Assessing the Time Squeeze Hypothesis: Estimates of Market and Non-market Hours in the United States, 1969-1989," Industrial Relations, 33(1):25-43, 1994, (with Laura Leete-Guy).
"Global Inequality and Environmental Crisis: An Argument for Reducing Working Hours in the North," World Development, 19(1)73-84. January 1991. Reprinted in Creating a New World Economy, eds., Gerald Epstein, Julie Graham and Jessica Nembhard, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press), 1993.
"Employment Rents and the Incidence of Strikes," Review of Economics and Statistics, LXIX(4):584-592, November 1987 (with Samuel Bowles).
"Changes in the Cyclical Pattern of Real Wages: Evidence from Nine Countries, 1955-1980," Economic Journal, 95:452-468, June 1985.
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BOOK CHAPTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“US Lifestyles and Macro Sustainability,” in Nature as a Force, eds., James Keenan and T. Frank Kennedy, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming.
“Post-growth,” in Growth in Transition, eds., Friedrich Hinterberger, Elke Pirgmaier, Elisabeth Freytag and Martina Schuster, (London: Earthscan), forthcoming 2011.
“The Viacom Generation: The Rise of Corporate Parenthood,” in The Emotional Eye of Families and Work: Essays in Honor of Arlie Russell Hochschild, Anita Ilta Garey and Karen V. Hansen, eds., (Rutgers University Press), 2011.
“Exit Ramp to Sustainability: the plenitude path”, Pour en finir avec ce vieux monde, eds., Dominique Méda and Thomas Coutrot (Paris: Les Editions Utopia), 2011.
“Interview on Post-Growth Discourse,” in Post-Growth Society, Irmi Seidl and Angelika Zahrnt, 2010.
“Academic as Social Entrepreneur: creating organizations for social change,” in Sociologists in Action, Michelle White and Kathleen Korgen (Los Angeles: Sage), 2010.
Interview with Juliet Schor, Resistance Against Empire: Interviews with Derrick Jensen, ed., Derrick Jensen, (Oakland, CA: PM Press), 2010, pp. 91-113.
“The Underdog Effect: The Marketing of Disadvantage through Brand Biography, Extended Abstract,” Advances in Consumer Research, vol. 37 (ACR: Provo, Utah), 2010. (with Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan and Jill Avery)
“Healthy Schedules for All,” in “STATE OF THE WORLD 2010 Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability” World Watch Institute, (W.W. Norton), 2010.
“Childhood as Profit-Center: marketing and the construction of consumer kids,” in The Insecure American, Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson, eds., (University of California Press), 2009.
“Simple Sustainability: Principles for a New Economy,” in Less is More, eds., Cecile Andrews and Wanda Urbanska, (New Society Publishers), 2009.
“Shop ‘Til You Drop, “ in David Eliot Cohen, editor, What Matters (New York: Sterling Books), 2008.
“A Sociologist Dreams of a New America,” Contexts, 7(2):12-13, Spring 2008.
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“Overturning the Modernist Predictions: Recent Trends in Work and Leisure,” Handbook of Leisure Studies, eds., Chris Rojek, Susan Shaw and Tony Veal, (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) 2007.
“Children and Consumerism,” Encyclopedia on Children, Adolescents and the Media, ed. Jeffrey Arnett, (Sage), 2007.
“Conspicuous Consumption,” Encyclopedia of Sociology, ed. George Ritzer (Oxford: Blackwell), 2007:681-686.
“Spending Nation: Consumerism and the Future of Liberal Values,” in Higher Education: Open for Business, ed., Christian Gilde (Lexington Books), 2007:125-138.
“Consumer Culture,” entry for International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, eds. Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski, (London: Routledge), 2006.
“Interview with Juliet Schor,” in Global Values 101: A Short Course in Progressive Ideas for the 21st Century, editors Brian Palmer, Kate Holbrook, Ann Kim and Anna Portnoy (Boston: Beacon Press), 2006.
“When Childhood Gets Commercialized, Can Children Be Protected?” in Ulla Carlsson, ed;, Regulation, Awareness, Empowerment: Young People and Harmful Media Content in the Digital Age (Goteborg, Sweden: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media) 2006:101-122. Also reprinted in In the Service of Young People? Studies and Reflections on Media in the Digital Age, eds., Ulla Carlsson and Cecilia Von Feilitzen (Goteborg, Sweden: The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media) 2006: 27-48 and in Below the Line Marketing—Concepts and Cases (Hyderabad, India: Institute of Chartered Financial Analysis, 2006).
"Work, Family and Children’s Consumer Culture," in Unfinished Work: Building Equality and Democracy in an Era of Working Families, eds. Jody Heymann and Christopher Beem, (New York: New Press), 2005:285-305.
“Born to Buy: Interview with Juliet Schor,” Dollars and Sense: The Magazine of Economic Justice, #225:24-29, September/October 2004.
“Why Do We Consume So Much?” in Joseph R. Desjardins and John J. McCall, Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics, Fifth Edition, (Thomson/Wadsworth: Belmont, CA): 2004:373-378. Reprinted in The Composition of Everyday Life: A Guide to Writing, Second Edition (Thomson Learning) 2006, and William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry and Panagiotou, Moral Issues in Business (Mason, Ohio: Nelson Education) 2009.
“Interview with Juliet Schor” (by Dennis Soron), Aurora Online, 2004.
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“U.S. Consumers, Cheap Manufactures, and the Global Sweatshop,” in State of the World 2004, Special Focus: The Consumer Society (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute), 2004.
“Consumerism and Community,” in Dan Shilling, editor, Conversations on Community, (Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Humanities Council), 2003:47-56.
“The (even more) Overworked American,” in John de Graff, editor, Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler:) 2003. (excerpted in Boston College Magazine, Winter 2004, p. 15.)
“Less Stuff, More Fun: Interview with Juliet Schor,” Indicators, 2(1):1-10, Winter 2002-3.
"Cleaning the Closet: Toward a New Ethic of Fashion," in Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the 21st Century (Boston: Beacon Press) November 2002.
“Een wegenkaart voor de 21ste eeuw: arbeidstijd en duurzame consumptie,” Oikos 21(2):76-90, 2002.
"Roundtable on Advertising and Values," Advertising and Society Review, #3:1, 2002.
“Time Crunch Among American Parents,” in Taking Parenting Public, eds., Sylvia Hewlett, Nancy Rankin and Cornel West (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield) 2002.
“Working Hours and Time Pressure: The controversy about trends in time use,” in Working Time: International Trends, Theory and Policy, eds. Deb Figart and Lonnie Golden (London: Routledge), 2000.
“Voluntary Downshifting in the 1990s,” Power, Employment and Accumulation: Social Structures in Economic Theory and Practice, ed. James Stanford (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe) 2000.
“What’s Wrong with Consumer Society? Competitive Spending and the New Consumerism,” in Consuming Passions, ed., Roger Rosenblatt, (Washington: Island Press), 1999.
“Inequality and the New Consumerism,” in Background Papers for the 1998 Human Development Report,” 1999.
"New Analytic Bases for an Economic Critique of Consumer Society," The Ethics ofConsumption: The Good Life, Justice and Global Stewardship, ed. David Crocker and Toby Linden, 1997 (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield) (also reprinted in Consumption: Critical Concepts, ed. Daniel Miller, Routledge 2001 and in newsletter of PEGS, Political Economy of the Good Society, Spring 1995)
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"Beyond an Economy of Work and Spend," Inaugural Oration for Chair in the Economics of Leisure, Tilburg University, (Tilburg: Tilburg University Press), July 1997.
"Utopias of Women's Time," in Feminist Utopias, ed. Marrie Becker, (Tilburg: Tilburg University Press), 1997.
"Work, Time and Leisure in the USA," in Work, Leisure and the Quality of Life; A Global Perspective, ed. Chris Gratton, Leisure Industries Research Centre, 6-21, 1996.
"A Reply to Ceasar," A PEGS Journal: The Good Society, 6(3):45-46, Fall 1996.
"The New American Dream, Demos Quarterly, Special Issue on The Time Squeeze, 5:30, 1995.
"Can the North Stop Consumption Growth?: Escaping the Cycle of Work and Spend" in V. Bhaskar and Andrew Glyn, The North, the South and the Environment, (London: Earthscan), 1995.
"The Great American Time Squeeze," Economic Policy Institute, February 1992, (with Laura Leete-Guy).
"Structural Determinants and Economic Effects of Capital Controls in the OECD," in Financial Openness and National Policy Autonomy, eds., Banuri and Schor, 1992, (with Gerald A. Epstein).
"Corporate Profitability as a Determinant of Restrictive Monetary Policy: Estimates for the Postwar United States" in The Political Economy of American Monetary Policy, ed., Thomas Mayer (Cambridge University Press), 1990 (with Gerald A. Epstein).
"Macroeconomic Policy in the Rise and Fall of the Golden Age," in The Golden Age ofCapitalism, eds., Marglin and Schor, 1990, (with Gerald A. Epstein).
"The Underproduction of Leisure: The Economics of Output Bias," mimeo, November 1990 (revised Harvard Institute for Economic Research Discussion Paper #1125).
"The Divorce of the Banca d'Italia and the Italian Treasury: A Case Study of Central Bank Independence," in The State and Social Regulation: New Perspectives, eds., P. Lange and M. Regini, (Cambridge University Press), 1989 (with Gerald A. Epstein).
"The Determinants of Central Bank Policies in Open Economies," in The Political Economy of Central Bank Intervention, eds., Bruno Jossa and Carlo Panico, (Naples: Liguori) 1988 (with Gerald A. Epstein).
"Does Work Intensity Respond to Macroeconomic Variables? Evidence from BritishManufacturing, 1970-1986," Harvard Institute for Economic Research, Discussion Paper #1379, April 1988.
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"Class Struggle and the Macroeconomy: The Cost of Job Loss," in Imperiled Economy: A Left Perspective, ed., Union for Radical Political Economics, 1987.
"The Political Economy of Central Banking," Harvard Institute for Economic Research, Discussion Paper #1281, November 1986 (with Gerald A. Epstein).
"Wage Flexibility, Social Welfare Expenditures and Monetary Restrictiveness," Money and Macro Policy, in ed., Marc Jarsulic (Boston: Kluwer-Nijhoff), 1985.
RESEARCH PROJECTS IN PROGRESS
Case studies of (1) fabrication laboratories and (2) open-source hardware practices and digitally based collaborative consumption practices.
“Climate Change and Social Class,” interview project (with Thomas Laidley)
“Ecological Economics and Sustainable Consumption,” project on alternative economic paradigms for ecological sustainability.
“Conscious Consumers and Political Activism,” online survey of individuals involved in values-based consumption and its relation to political activism (with Margaret Willis)
WORKING PAPERS
“Does Changing a Light Bulb Lead to Changing the World? Civic Engagement and the Ecologically Conscious Consumer,” (with Margaret Willis) Submitted to Social Problems.
“The Expansion of Fast-Fashion: A Macro-Material Analysis of Trends in US Consumption, 1998-2005,” July 2008.
“Time, For a Change: Transforming the Structures of Everyday Life,” September 1999.
“Consumerism, the Commodification of Ghetto Violence, and Underclass Status,” November 1998 (with Douglas Holt).
“Civic Engagement and Working Hours: Do Americans Really Have More Free Time than Ever Before?” September 1997.
"Refugees from the `Fat and Mean' Economy: Downshifting in the 1990s” March 1997.
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"Do Americans Keep up with the Joneses? The Impact of Consumption Aspirations on Savings Behaviour," May 1997.
"The Stress of Modernity," November 1994.
"Consumerism and the Decline of Family and Community: Preliminary Statistics from a Survey on Time, Money, and Values," March 1995.
"Short of Time: American Families and the Structure of Jobs," March 1994.
BOOK REVIEWS
The New Consumers, by Norman Meyers and Jennifer Kent, Ecological Economics, 55(3), November 2005.
Over the Edge by Leo Bogart and Savage Pastimes by Harold Schechter, Washington Post Book World, May 15, 2005, p.4.
Point of Pleasure: How Shopping Changed American Culture, by Sharon Zukin, Contemporary Sociology, 34(1), 43-44, 2005.
“Who’s Going Bankrupt and Why? Reflections on The Fragile Middle Class,” Texas Law Review, vol 79, April 2001.
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping, by Paco Underhill, Boston Globe, June 1999.
Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the American Dream Through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business, and Money, by Robert Wuthnow, American Journal of Sociology, September 1997.
Of Time and Money: The Making of Consumer Culture, by Gary Cross, Journal of Economic Literature 1995.
The Costs of Living: How Market Freedom Erodes the Best Things in Life, by Barry Schwartz, New York Times Book Review, July 17, 1994.
Wages and the Business Cycle, by Jonathan Michie, Journal of Economic Literature, December 1988.
POPULAR ARTICLES
“Light bulbs and toilets,” Room for Debate Blog, New York Times, March 17, 2011.
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“New Work Centers and High-Tech Self-Providing,” Synthesis/Regeneration 54, Winter, 2011.
“The new work share policies: exit ramp to sustainability?” Yes magazine online, http://www.yesmagazine.org/, August 9, 2010.
“Plenitude: a statement on economics, ecology and true wealth,” at changethis.com, June 2010, #71.
“A Cure for Consumption, ,” Boston Globe Op-ed, May 30, 2010.
“Beyond Business as Usual,” The Nation, May 24, 2010, pp. 6-8.
“Tino Sehgal and Political Economy,” contribution to Guggenheim OnLine Forum entitled Beyond Material Worth, February 2010.
“Forget Commercialism! The New Realities of Consumption and the Economy,” in June Johnson, ed., Global Issues, Local Arguments, 2/e (Longman/Pearson), 2009.
“Global Growth, American Thrift,” Room for Debate Blog, New York Times online, September 24, 2009.
“Eat Less Meat,” Room for Debate Blog, New York Times online, February 25, 2009.
“Holiday Shopping—Just Don’t,” Los Angeles Times, November 28, 2008.
“Au Pays Des Workaholics,” Philosophie Magazine, Paris, Novembre 2008.
“The Era of Cheap Goods is Over,” Boston Globe, Sunday, April 28, 2008 (with Prasannan Parthasarathi).
“A Cleaner, Greener Christmas,” Boston Globe, Sunday, December 10, 2006.
“Advertising Unfairly Targets Kids,” in Advertising, ed Eleanor Stanford, (Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press), 2006: 53-60. (excerpt from “Dematerializing Our Kids: an interview with Juliet B. Schor, in Hope November/December 2004.)
“Junk Food Nation,” The Nation, August 2005, pp. 15-17. (with Gary Ruskin).
“Every Nook and Cranny: The Dangerous Spread of Commercialized Culture,” Multinational Monitor, 25th Anniversary Edition, January/February 2005, pp. 20-23 (with Gary Ruskin).
“Election Forum,” The Nation, December 12, 2004.
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“Those Ads Are Enough to Make Your Kids Sick” Washington Post Outlook, B04, September 12, 2004.
“How Corporate America Targets Your Children,” Newark Star-Ledger, August 29, 2004.
“Clothes Encounters” Orion Magazine,.11, September/October 2004.
“Social Justice vs. The Cheap Sweater,” cover story, Enough! Spring 2004.
“Take Back Your Time,” More Than Money, Viewpoint column, Issue #36:35-37, 2004.
“Take Back Your Time,” Boston College Magazine Winter 2004.
“Chicken Dance Elmo and a Cashmere Twin-set? Thanks, but not this year” Boston Globe, Ideas Section, Sunday, December 8, 2002.
“Why Americans Should Rest,” New York Times, op-ed, September 2, 2002.
“Integrating Work in Academe and Advocacy: A Conversation with Juliet Schor,” edited by Briah Hoey, online article in Sloan Work-Family Online Research Network, Spring 2002.
“Why Harvard Needs a Living Wage,” Boston Globe, May 2001.
“My Millenial Wish--Real Vacations for All,” Center for a New American Dream Syndication Service, May 2000.
“How I came to write The Overspent American,” Iris: A Journal About Women, #40, Spring 2000.
“Consumed by Consumption,” Radcliffe Quarterly, Winter 2000.
Preface to Shifting Fortunes (Boston: United for a Fair Economy), 1999.
“We want what we cannot afford,” Op-ed reprinted in Boston Globe, Orlando Times-Sentinel, Hope Magazine, May 1998.
Roundtable discussion on The Overspent American, Yes! Magazine, Summer 1998."Consumerism in the U.S.: Franck Amalric talks with Juliet Schor," Development 41(1):18-22,1998.
“The Good Life in the 21st Century: Towards a New American Dream,” Shift 1(1), Fall 1996.
"Trendicators" column, Working Woman, April 1995, August 1995.
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"A Populist Manifesto," New York Times, op-ed, December 5, 1994
"Debunking the Small Business Myth," Working Woman, November 1994.
"The Weekend" Parents, November 1994.
"Time" Sesame Street Parents, (25th Anniversary Issue), July/August 1994.
"Reply to Mari Osawa," Kikan Mado, volume 19, March 1994.
"All Work and No Play: It Doesn't Pay," New York Times, Business Section, August 29, 1993.
"Point/Counterpoint/Infotechnology: Family friend or Foe?" Hemispheres, July 1993. Reprinted in Mastering College Reading, Theodore Knight, ed., (Richard D. Irwin), 1994.
"Are we Really That Lazy," interview, Newsweek, February 17, 1992. Reprinted in The Crossfire Reader, ed., Myron Tusman (Allyn and Bacon), January 1992 and in Learning Economics: A Practical Workbook, ed., Abhay B. Ghiara (Addison Wesley Longman), July 1997.
"If You Think You're Working More and More Hours, You're Right," Los Angeles Times,January 19, 1992.
"Work, Spend, Work, Spend: Is This Any Way to Live?" The Washington Post, January 19, 1992."Workers of the World, Unwind," Technology Review, November/ December 1991. Excerpted in Journal of Institute for Political Economy, Japan, June 1993; and in Politica ed Economia, Italy, December 1993.
"Americans Work Too Hard," New York Times, op-ed, July 25, 1991. Excerpted in The Short Prose Reader, eds. G.H. Miller and H. S. Wiener, (New York: McGraw-Hill), January 1994 and Checkpoints: Developing College English Skills, 3rd edition, Jack Page, (Addison Wesley Longman).
"Why I am No Longer a Progressive," Zeta magazine, April 1989.
"The Art of Service," Zeta magazine, January 1989.
"Manufacturing Crisis?" Zeta magazine, November 1988.
"Peace Through Economic Cooperation: Moving Beyond Military and Economic Dominance," Plowshare, vol. 13, #3, Summer 1988.
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"Letters to Miss Moneypenny," Zeta magazine, July-August 1988.
"The Great Trade Debates," Zeta magazine, March 1988. Reprinted in Creating a New World Economy, eds, Epstein, Graham and Nembhard, (Philadelphia: Temple), 1993.
"Trials and Tradulations," Zeta magazine, January 1988.
"Hostile Takeovers: The Political Economy of U.S. Military Spending," Radical America, vol. 21, #1, 1987.
Tunnel Vision: Labor, the World Economy, and Central America (Boston: South End Press), 1987 (with Daniel Cantor).
"The Minimum Wage is a Growth Issue," Democratic Left, September 1987.
"Full Employment and the International Economy," Social Policy, Spring 1987.
"The Economics of Democracy," 1986, Part IV, The Economic Report of the People, ed., Center for Popular Economics, (Boston: South End Press).
"Full Employment: Beyond Zero-Sum," Democratic Left, vol. XIV, #2, March-April 1986.
"The Economics and Politics of Full Employment," Socialist Review, #81, May 1985.
ORGANIZATIONS FOUNDED AND BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
Board of Directors, Commercial Alert, June 2004-2010.Founding Member and Secretary, Board of Directors, Center for a New American Dream, 1995-2007. Co-Chair, Board of Directors, 2007-2010.Founder and Staff Economist, Center for Popular Economics, 1978-1990.Founder and Editor, South End Press, Boston, MA 1977-1979.
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Policy Board, Journal of Consumer Research, 2010-presentEditorial Board, Intervention: A Journal of Economics, 2003-present.Editorial Board, Advertising and Society Review, 2001-present.Editorial Board, Journal of Consumer Culture, 1999-present. (Deputy editor on economics and environment)Editorial Board, International Journal of Applied Economics, 1992-present.
ADVISORY BOARDS
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One Earth Foundation, November 2010-present.Media Education Foundation, June 2006-present.Senior Advisory Council, The Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, January 2005-present.Board of Advisers, Action Coalition for Media Education, Summer 2004-present.International Advisory Board, Programme on Socio-Economic Security, International Labor Organization, 1999-present. Advisory Board, Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 1997-present.Advisory Board, College and University Work/Family Association, 1995-1997.Founding Board, PEGS (Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society), 1994-present.Advisory Board, Center for the Study of Commercialism, Washington, D.C., 1992-2000.Research Advisory Council, Economic Policy Institute, September 1986-1995.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Member, MacArthur Foundation Connected Learning Research Network, 2010-present.
Steering Group Member, Project on the 3Millenium Economy, 2010-present.
Chair, Steering Committee, Demos working group on “Beyond Consumerism, 2010-present.
Member, New Economy Network Working Group, 2010-present.
Member, SCORAI Network on Sustainable Consumption, 2009-present.
American Sociology Association Representative to Journal of Consumer Research Policy Board, 2010-2012.
Member, American Sociological Association Public Understanding of Sociology Award Selection Committee, 2010-2012.
Organizer and Presider, Session on Gender and Consumption, Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, 2010.
Steering Committee, preparatory meetings for Rio + 20Sustainable Development Division, United Nations, February 2010-present.
Co-Organizer and Presenter, Beyond Growth & Consumption: Emerging Visions Conference, Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, Pocantico, NY, May 2009.
Rogers Fellowship, Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, MA, October 2008.
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Organizing Committee, Consumer Research Studies Network Mini-Conference, Boston College, August 2007-2008.
Organizer and Presider, Consumers and Consumption, Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, Boston, August 2008.
“The Paradox of Affluence,” Faculty Scholar Conference for Phi Theta Kappa National Honors Study Topic, January 2008.
Research Scholar, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, March 2007-present.
Invited Participant, “New Economy Think Tank Conference,” Schumacher College, Devon, UK, November 2007.
Invited Participant, “Toward a New Consciousness” Conference, Organized by Yale University, Aspen, Colorado, October 2007.
Member, External Review Committee, Tufts Department of Sociology, October 2007.
Guest Professor, Institute for Social Ecology, University of Klagenfeld, Vienna, Austria, June 2006.
Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Iowa, October 2004.
Selection Committee, Ralph Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa, 2004.
Advisory Group, “The Work-Family-Community Nexus,” Sloan Foundation Research Project, Harvard KSG and SPH.
Selection Committee, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships, 2003-06.
Faculty, Whidbey Institute, Course on Challenging Globalization, August 2004.
Faculty, Schumacher College, England, Course on Challenging Globalization, July 2003, 2005.
Faculty, Teachers as Scholars Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2001-present.
Editorial Collective, Critical Sociology Special Issue on Culture, Power and History, 2001-04.
Organizer and Presider, Consumers and Consuming, Sessions I and II, Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 2002.
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Co-Organizer, Working Conference of The Simplicity Forum, Fetzer Foundation, March 2002.
Master Class, Sociology Department, University of Antwerpen, Belgium, March 2002.
Visiting Professor Exchange, Advertising Education Foundation, July 2001.
Participant, Work, Family and Democracy Initiative, The Johnson Foundation, 2000-1.
Faculty, Schumacher College, England, July 1999.
Advisory Board, Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 1997-present.
Consultant, United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report, 1997.
Visiting Scholar, Havens Center, University of Wisconsin, February-March 1996.
Forum Fellow, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, 1993, 1996.
European Commission Carrefour, participant, 1995, Lund, Sweden.
Non-Council Member, President's Council on Sustainable Development, Population and Consumption Task Force, 1995.
U.S. Co-Chair, North American Network for Shorter Hours of Work, Fall 1994-1997.
Work and Family Advisory Committee, Harvard University, 1994-1999.
Board of Trustees, Wesleyan University, July 1988-June 1991.
Economic Columnist, Zeta magazine, December 1987-1991.
Research Affiliate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, July 1986-July 1991.
REVIEWER ACTIVITY
(since 2005 only): American Sociological Review, Journal of Economic Psychology, Social Problems, Journal of Consumer Culture, American Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society, Journal of American Culture, Journal of Human Ecology, Sociological Forum, American Council of Learned Societies, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Institutes of Medicine.
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DOCUMENTARY FILM AND VIDEO APPEARANCES (selected)
Hooked on Growth, 2010Play Again, 2010The Economics of Happiness, 2010Shop ‘Til You Drop: The Crisis of Consumerism, 2010Consume This Movie, 2009Consuming Kids, 2008How the Kids Took Over, 2007Forgive Us Our Debts, 2004The Overspent American, 2003Occupation, 2002Simple Living (PBS series), 2000Escape from Affluenza, 1997Affluenza, 1996Running Out of Time, 1992
INVITED LECTURESHIPS AND KEYNOTE TALKS
“Plenitude and Business as Social Innovation,” Keynote Address, Doing Good and Doing Well Conference, IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain, February 2011.
“Plenitude: Transition to a Sustainable Economy,” Michigan Law School Environmental Law and Policy Program, January 2011.
“What We Are Like: Consumerism in Contemporary Context” Keynote address at “Setting the course: paths to sustainable ways of life “Symposium, Denkwerk Zukunft Foundation for cultural renewal, Berlin, January 2011.
“Consumption and Sustainability: Toward the Plenitude Economy,” College of Charleston, Invited Lecture, November 2010.
“Work, Family and the Plenitude Economy,” Keynote Address, Balanced Lives Symposium, University of Iowa, Public Policy Center, October 2010.
“Plenitude,” Invited Lecture, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, October 2010.
“Plenitude: envisioning a sustainable economy,” Keynote, Kick-Off Conference for C2C, Williams College, Environmental Studies Program, September 2010.
“Plenitude: toward a sustainable economy,” Annual SSRC Lecture, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland, June 2010.
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“From Ecocide to Plenitude,” Pitzer College, Center for Social Inquiry,” April 2010.
“Addressing the twin crises: from austerity to plenitude,” McAuley Lecture, St. Joseph’s College, Connecticut, April 2010.
“Plenitude and Consumer Culture,” Denison University, February 2010.
“Macroeconomic Conditions for Sustainability,” Growth in Transition, Austria LIFE ministry conference, January 2010.
“Social Behavior and the Transition to Sustainability,” Herbert Spencer Lecture, Oxford University, March 2009.
“Fast Fashion: A Macro-Materialist Analysis of US Consumption, 1998-2005,” Manchester University, Center for Sustainable Consumption, March 2009.
“Consumer Culture and Greed,” Conversation with Davie Loy, Aurora Forum, Stanford University, December 2008.
“Sustainable Consumption,” Phillips Andover Academy, October 2008.
“The Paradox of Affluence,” Keynote Address, National Conference on Honors Study Topic, Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society, San Francisco State University, June 2008.
“Achieving Sustainability: Macro Trends,” Keynote Address to BALLE Annual Conference, Boston University, June 2008.
“Acting Sustainably in a Consumer Culture,” Gustavus Adolphus College, Public Lecture, April 2008.
“Getting to Sustainability: Work, Consumption and Everyday Life,” Annual Synoptic Lecturer, Grand Valley State University, Grand Valley, Michigan, April 2008.
“Shop Til You Drop,” Public Lecture, Curry College Sociology Department, April 2008.
“Why We Buy,” Illahee Lecture Series, Portland, Oregon, February 2008.
“The Good Life or the Goods Life,” Keynote Address, Conference on What’s the Economy For Anyway? Washington, DC, October 2007.
“Consumer-Topia: Envisioning a New Consumer,” Plenary Session on Real Utopias, ASA, New York, August 2007.
“Sustainable Living,” Keynote Panel, Sustainable Consumption Conference, University of Florida, April 2007.
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“Mainstreaming Green Consumption,” Farajollah and Maryam Badie Arfaa Lecture Series in Architecture, Drexel University, Philadelphia, April 2007.
“The Social Death of Things,” Fritz Nova Invited Lecture, Department of Sociology, Villanova University, Philadelpha, April 2007.
“Sociology and Consumption,” Friedson Lecture, Department of Sociology, New York University, March 2007.
“Asking the Big Questions,” Keynote Panel, Frontiers in Qualitative Sociology: Berkeley Sociologists in the World, Conference in Honor of Arlie Hochschild, Department of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley, October 2006.
“Spending Nation: Consumerism and the Future of Liberal Values,” Hays and Margaret Crimmel Colloquium Lecture, St. Lawrence University, September 2006.
“Do Americans Shop Too Much?” Frances Asbury Palmer Lecture, First Presbyterian Church and Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa, April 17, 2006. “Fashion and Consumer Culture,” Convocation Address, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, January 2006.
“Childhood, Commercialization and Popular Culture,” Seminar on Popular Culture, Phi Theta Kappa, Jackson, MS, November 2005.
“Children, Market and Culture,” Gamble Lecture, University of Massachusetts Department of Economics, Amherst, MA, November 2005.
“Reclaiming Our Kids: Countering the Commercialization of Childhood,” Plenary Speaker, Bioneers by the Bay: Connecting for Change, First Annual Northeast Bioneers Conference, October 2005.
“Consumer Culture and Well-Being: A Survey of Fifth and Sixth Grade Students,” President’s Invited Address, New England Psychological Association Annual Meetings, New Haven, October 2005.
“Children and Consumer Culture,” Shannon Weatherly Annual Lecture, Montana State University, October 2005.
“Consumer Culture: Shoppers’ Paradise or Consumers’ Nightmare,” Address to Freshman Seminars, College of Liberal Studies, Montana State University, October 2005.
“The Commercialization of Childhood,” St. Scholastica College, September 2005.
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“Consumer Involvement and At-Risk Children,” Keynote Address, Bring Back the Kitchen Table, First Annual Charter Schools’ Parent Conference, Rutgers University, New Jersey, June 11, 2005.
“Work in the Global Economy,” Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, New York, July 2005.
“How Media Exposure Affects Children’s Well-Being,” Keynote Address, Northeast Media Literacy Conference, University of Connecticut, April 2005.
“Commercialism and Public Education,” Keynote Address, Not for Sale Conference on Public Education, British Columbia Teachers Conference, Vancouver, February 2005.
“The Commercialization of Childhood,” Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Lecture, University of Iowa, October 2004.
“Children’s Play in a Commercial Culture,” Playing for Keeps Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2004.
“The Commercialization of Childhood: Are We Doing Our Children Justice?” Keynote Address, Madison Civics Club, Madison, Wisconsin, May 2004.
“Economics and Consumer Culture,” Gordon Hall Inaugural Lecture Series, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, March 2004.
“Politicizing Sustainability: Why Achieving Ecological Balance RequiresEconomic and Geo-Political Transformation,” Opening Keynote Address, Sixth Nordic Conference on Environmental Social Sciences, Turku/Abo, Finland, June 2003.
“Sustainable Consumption and American Imperialism,” Keynote Address, US Ecological Economics Association, Saratoga, NY, May 2003.
“Living Sustainably: Solutions for the 21st Century,” Opening Keynote Address, Sustainable Portland Conference, May 2003.
“The Commodification of Childhood: Tales from the Advertising Front Lines,” Colloquium on the Commodification of Everything, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, February 2003.
"Sustainable Consumption and Worktime Reduction," Fifth Annual Kurt W. Rothschild Annual Lecture, University of Linz, Austria, November 2002.
"Understanding the New Consumerism: Inequality, Emulation, and the Erosion of Well-Being" Invited Lecture, Flemish Sociological Association, University of Antwerpen, Belgium, March 2002.
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“Why Do We Consume So Much?” Thirteenth Annual Clemens Lecture, St. John’s College, Minnesota, October 2001.
“Beyond the New Consumerism: Fostering Environmentally Sustainable Lifestyles,” George Link Jr. Environmental Awareness Lecture, Dartmouth University, May 2001.
Keynote Address, First Women’s Conference, Newton Commission for Women, Boston College, March 2001.
“Toward a Sustainable Environment: The Strategy of Worktime Reduction,” Keynote Address, Berkeley Journal of Sociology Conference on Work, March 2001.
Keynote Address, Conference entitled Beyond Consumerism: Toward a Transformational Politics, Boston Research Center, Cambridge, MA, March 2001.
“Academic Women and the Time Squeeze,” Keynote Address, Sixth Annual Conference, College and University Work/Family Association (CUWFA) University of Arizona, Tucson, March 2001.
“The Unexpected Decline of Leisure,” Kansas City Public Library Invited Lecture, February 2001.
“The Overspent American,” Sidore Lecture, Plymouth State College, New Hampshire, November 2000.
“Beyond an Economy of Work and Spend,” Liberal Arts and Sciences Centennial Scholar Invited Lecture, DePaul University, November 2000.
“The New Consumerism,” Annual Conference of Responsible Wealth, Boston, April 2000.
“Negotiating the Consumer Culture: Children and Parents,” Sloan/Berkeley/BRWF Sponsored Conference on “Work and Family: Expanding the Horizons,” San Francisco, March 2000.
“The Overworked American,” College-Wide Lecture, Swarthmore College, October 1999.
“Time, for a Change: Transforming the Structures of Everyday Life,” Keynote Address at Duke University Women’s Studies Conference 24/7Rest and Unrest, October 1999.
Graduation Address, Radcliffe Seminars, Radcliffe College, June 1999.
“Time and Money: Households Under Pressure,” Keynote address at Radcliffe Public Policy Institute/Ford Foundation, Work and Life 2000 Roundtable, New York City, May, 1999.
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Millenium-Tage Conference, Kassel Germany, 1998.
"The Overspent American," Arts and Humanities Lecture Series, Framingham State College, 1998.
"Beyond an Economy of Work and Spend," Inaugural Oratie, Tilburg University, 1997.
"The Overspent American," Boston College Humanities Series/Lowell Lecture, 1998.
“Beyond Work and Spend," New Strategies for Everyday Life Conference, Tilburg University, 1996.
"The Increasing Pace of Life," Doors of Perception 4, Netherlands Design Institute, 1996.
"Beyond work and spend: time, leisure and consumerism," Conference on Leisure, Time, and Space in a Transitory Society, Leisure Studies Association and Vereniging van de Vrijtijdssector, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 1996.
"The Overworked American," Sheffield Hallam University, 1996.
"Toward a New Consumer: how can consumers change to make their lifestyle more sustainable?" Congress on Industrial Ecology, Tilburg University, 1996.
"Rethinking Consumer Society," Eighth Annual Mason Library Honors Lecture, Keene State College, New Hampshire, 1996.
"Work, Time and Consumption," Conference on Our Time Famine, University of Iowa, 1996.
"Utopias of Women's Time," Festival of Utopias, Tilburg University, 1996.
"Time, Work and Money: Escaping the Cycle of Work and Spend," Special Lecture of American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, 1995.
"Women and Leisure," Conference on "Women and Leisure: Towards a New Understanding," University of Georgia, 1995.
"Rethinking Consumer Society" First Annual William Weiss Lecture in Economics, Skidmore College, 1995.
"New Patterns of Work, Family, Time and Consumption for the Twenty-First Century," Second National Conference on Work/Life Issues, Northeastern University, 1995.
"The Overworked American," Hull Memorial Lecture, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1994.
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"Time, Work and Money," Distinguished Lecture Series, Nazareth College, Rochester, 1994.
"Work, Leisure and Unemployment," Conference on the "Unexpected Decline of Leisure," Tilburg University, 1994.
"Stakeholder Dialogue," Graduate School of Business, University of St. Thomas, 1994.
"Work, Consumption and the Quality of Life," Theodore M. Marburg Memorial Lecture, Marquette University, 1994.
"Amending the Fair Labor Standards Act," Piper Memorial Lecture, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1994.
"Work, Consumption and the Quality of Life," Hogendorn Lecture, Wesleyan University, 1994.
"Work and Leisure in Contemporary America," Governor's Conference on Tourism, Florida, 1994.
"Beyond Work and Spend: New Choices for the Twenty-First Century," Annual Induction Ceremony, Economics Honor Society, Providence College, 1994.
"Theoretical Considerations on the Determination of Working Hours," Twenty-fifthAnniversary Conference, Institute for Fundamental Political Economy, Kansai University, Osaka, 1993, (published in Journal of Political Economy, #76, May 1994).
"Economic Discourse and the Quality of Life," Debs-Thomas-Bernstein Award Dinner, Boston, 1993.
Men, Women and Work: Times Are Changing," Jesse Daniel Ames Lecture Series,Southwestern University, 1993.
"The Overworked American," Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series, University of Dayton, 1993.
"Reflections on The Overworked American," Lou Douglas Lecture Series, Kansas State University, 1992.
Conference on "Working Wonders: Women's Personal, Professional and Public Roles," Radcliffe College, 1992.
"The Overworked American: Implications for Recreation Professionals," National Recreation and Parks Association Annual Meeting, 1992.
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"The Overworked American," Annual Conference, Human Resources Management Association of Chicago, 1992.
Commencement Address, Winchester-Thurston School for Girls, Pittsburgh,1992.
PRESENTED PAPERS AND TALKS
“Plenitude and the Sustainable Economy,” Cary Lecture Series, Lexington, MA, April 2010.
“Does Changing a Lightblub Change the World? Civic Engagement and Ecologically Conscious Consumers,” Conference on the Politics of Consumption/the Consumption of Politics, University of Wisconsin, March 2011.
Author Meets Critics Session on Plenitude, Eastern Sociological Association Meetings, Philadelphia, February 2011.
“Plenitude: How and why millions of Americans are creating a time-rich, ecologically-light, small-scale, high-satisfaction economy,” GDAE, Tufts University, February 2011.
“Plenitude: The new economics of sustainability,” MIT Sustainability Initiative, February 2011.
“Teaching Sustainability,” Presentation to Faculty Workshop on Teaching Sustainability, Boston College, January 2011.
“Plenitude and Social Change,” Jamaica Plain Forum, Boston, December 2010.
“Plenitude,” A&S Dean’s Colloquium, Boston College, November 2010.
“Moving beyond the traditional environmental movement,” Pricing Carbon Conference, Wesleyan University, November 2010.
“The recession and the midterm elections,” Panel member, Americans for Democratic Action Education Fund conference, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, November 2010.
“Plenitude and the Open-Source Hardware Movement,” Berkman Center on Internet and Society, Harvard University, November 2010.
“Plenitude,” Winston Forum on Business Ethics, Boston College, October 2010.
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“Consumerism and Ecological Economics,” Progressive Caucus Speaker Series, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, October 2010.
“Plenitude,” Boston Book Festival, October 2010.
“Conscious Consumption and Political Activism,” University of Minnesota Sociology Department Seminar, October 2010.
“Plenitude: toward an ethical economy,” Ethical Culture Society talk, Cambridge, MA, September 2010.
“Plenitude,” RiverRun Bookstore/Seacoast Local Event, Portsmouth, NH, September 2010.
“Plenitude,” TELLUS/SCORAI Seminar Series, Boston, MA, September 2010.
“Sustainable Consumption,” Expert Workshop, National University of Ireland/Galway, Galway, Ireland, June 2010.
“Consumption and Growth,” No-Growth Roundtable, Pugwash Society, York University, May 2010.
“Plenitude,” ILLAHEE/Powell’s/Natural Step Lecture, Portland, May 2010.
“Plenitude,” Town Hall Lecture Series, Seattle, May 2010.
“Plenitude,” Author’s Series, Harvard Book Store, May 2010.
“Plenitude,” David Suzuki Foundation, Toronto, May 2010.
“Plenitude: Economics for an Ecological Age,” Session on Environmental Justice and the Current Economic Crisis, Eastern Sociology Society Annual Meetings, Boston, March 2010.
“The Engaged Economist,” Session on Public Sociology and the Classroom, Eastern Sociology Society Annual Meetings, Boston, March 2010.
“Consuming Consciously: Analyzing the Buying Green Phenomenon." Yale Sociology Department Colloquium, February 2010.
“Shorter Working Hours and Sustainability,” Panel Presentation at launch of Transforming Cultures: The State of the World 2010, Worldwatch Institute, Washington, D.C., January 2010.
“Discussant,” Culture Theory Seminar, Harvard University, December 2009.
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“Colossal Failure: The Output Bias of Market Economies”, Conference on the Free Market Mindset, Project on Law and Mind Sciences, Harvard Law School, March 2009.
“US Lifestyles and Macro Sustainability,” Conference on Nature as a Force, Jesuit Institute, Boston College, February 2009.
“The Overspent American,” Feed Your Mind Speaker Series, California State University at Northridge, February 2009.
“Coming to Grips with Sustainability: Where Do We Go From Here?” American Meteorological Society Environmental Science Seminar Series, Senate Office Building, Washington D.C., January 2009.
“The Expansion of Fast-Fashion: A Macro-Material Analysis of Trends in US Consumption, 1998-2005,” University of Massachusetts Economics Department, December 2008.
“The Expansion of Fast-Fashion: A Macro-Material Analysis of Trends in US Consumption, 1998-2005,” Presented at ASA thematic session on production and consumption, Boston, July 2008.
“Solutions for a Climate-Friendly Economy,” invited presentation to Al Gore at Summit on Solutions to the Climate Crisis, Nashville, TN, May 2008.
“Consumption and Sustainability: The Social Death of Things,” Sociology Department, University of Minnesota, April 2008.
“Advertising and Ethical Practice,” Seminar, Wieden + Kennedy Agency, Portland, Oregon, February 2008.
“Consumption and Sustainability,” Seminar, Portland State University, February 2008.
“The Commercialization of Childhood,” Lecture, Thurston Middle School, Westwood, MA, October 2007.
“The Future of Consumer Studies,” Panel Presentation, Mini-Conference on Consumer Studies, Barnard College, August 10, 2007.
“Getting to Sustainability: The Macro Context,” Sustainable Business Network, Boston, MA, May 2007.
“Consumer Culture: The New Childhood Risk Factor,” Community Change, Inc, Suffolk University Law School, May 2007.
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“The Commodification of Childhood,” Teachers as Scholars Seminar, Harvard Hillel, May 2007.
“Emerging Consumer Lifestyles,” Talk to Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni Education Program, April 2007.
“Globalization and Poverty,” Moderator, Opening Panel, Conference on Re-Thinking Development, Dag Hammarskold Foundation/University of Southern New Hampshire, April 2007.
“Consumerism and Childhood,” Angier School, Newton, MA, March 2007.
“Sustainability and the New American Dream: A Case Study,” Organizational Studies Seminar, CSOM, Boston College, February 2007.
“Consumerism and Childhood,” Dinner Speech, Newton Schools Foundation, February 2007.
“Is Growth Sustainable?” Taproots Colloquium, Center for Community Change, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, December 2006.
“Trends in the Commercialization of Childhood,” Seminar presented at National Consumers Council, London, November 2006.
“Theoretical Issues in the Commercialization of Childhood,” Paper presented at Seminar on the History of Childhood, Magdalen College, Oxford University, November 2006.
“The Commercialization of Childhood: Debates about Marketing,” Invited Lecture, Department of Marketing, Said Business School, Oxford University and Royal Society of the Arts, November 2006.
“In Defense of Consumer Critique,” Highlighted Paper, Conference on The Politics of Consumption and the Consumption of Politics, University of Wisconsin at Madison, October 2006.
“Galbraith and the Sovereign Consumer,” Conference on John Kenneth Galbraith and the Future of Liberalism, Kennedy School of Government and Department of Economics, Harvard University, October 2006.
“In Praise of Consumer Critics,” American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, Session on Consumption and Consumers, August 2006.
“Consumption in a Global Context,” Seminar, Institute for Social Ecology, Vienna, June 14, 2006.
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“Worktime Reduction and Sustainable Consumption, Public Lecture, Institute for Social Ecology, Vienna, June 12, 2006.
“Commercialized Childhood and the Politics of Protection,” Presentation to Conference on “What’s Wrong with America?” STS Program, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 26, 2006.
“Conscious Consuming,” Panel, Boston College Department of Sociology, May 3, 2006.
“Children and The Commercial Culture,” Sudbury Middle School, Sudbury, Mass, March 29, 2006.
“The Commercialization of Childhood,” WESeminar, Weslyean University, May 27, 2006.
“American Consumer Culture: Paradise or Nightmare,” Western Illinois University, Lecture to Freshman Class, March 2006.
“The Social Death of Stuff,” Eastern Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, Session on Place, February 2006.
“Children and Consumer Culture,” Tufts University Department of Sociology, February 2006.
“John Kenneth Galbraith and the Economics of Consumption,” Panel on Galbraith, American Economics Association Annual Meetings, January 2006.
“How Consumer Culture is Affecting Quality of Life for Children,” Shady Hill School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2005.
“Children, Materialism and Consumer Culture,” Parents Council of Greater Baltimore, November 2005.
“Take Back Your Time,” Lecture for Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, October 2005.
“Children, Materialism and Consumer Culture,” Children’s Museum, Oak Grove, Illinois, October 2005.
“How Consumer Culture is Affecting Quality of Life for Children,” North Shore Parents’ Forum, Massachusetts, October 2005.
“The Lighthouse Campaign: The Challenging Task of Culture Change,” Workshop Presented at Bioneers by the Bay: Connecting for Change, First Annual Northeast Bioneers Conference, October 2005.
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“Children, Materialism, and the Quality of Life,” Church of the Redeemer, Newton, MA, September 2005.
Panel on Children and Environment, American Museum of Natural History, Center on Conservation and Biodiversity, New York, September 22, 2005.
“Economic Justice and Cultural Creatives: Two Movements in Search of a Marriage” Seminar to the Center for Cultural Change, Washington, DC, June 2005. Wellness Workshop on Media and Consumer Culture, Weston Public Schools, Regis College, June 2005.
Experts Dinner, KidPower Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida, May 2005.
“Women and Pay Equity,” Boston College Law School Women’s Leadership Club, Newton, Mass, April 2005. Panel Discussion on Teasing and Bullying, Runckle School, Brookline, Massachusetts, April 2005.
“When Childhood is Commercialized Can Children Be Protected?” Yale Law School Legal Theory Workshop, March 31, 2004.
Author Meets Critics Session, with Sharon Zukin, Eastern Sociological Association, Washington, DC, March 2005.
Panel on Viviana Zelizer’s “Pricing the Priceless Child,” Eastern Sociological Association, Washington, DC, March 2005.
“How Consumer Culture Affects Children’s Well-Being,” Annual Conference, Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood, Howard University, March 2005.
“Junk Food Marketing and Children’s Well-Being,” Seminar to Friedman School of Food and Nutrition, Tufts University, March 2, 2005
”Born to Buy,” City Club of San Diego/Catfish Club, January 2005.
“Born to Buy,” The Denver Forum, January 2005.
“Ethics and Marketing to Children,” Townhall Debate, Kidscreen Conference, New York City, February 2005.
“Children and Advertising,” Sunday Forum, Trinity Church, Boston, December 12, 2004.
“Children and Consumer Culture,” Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC, November 30, 2004.
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“Born to Buy,” Writers Among Us, Boston College Writers Series, November 17, 2004.
“Born to Buy,” Miami Book Fair, Miami, FL, November 14, 2004.
“Responding to Commercialized Childhood,” Workshop to National Association of Independent Schools, New York, October 25, 2004.
“Materialism and Well-Being,” Faith on Tap Series, Trinity Church, October 4, 2004.
“Poor Children and the Commercialization of Childhood,” Academic Salon Program, Seattle University, September 28, 2004.
“Born to Buy,” Public Lecture, organized by Northwest Earth Institute, Portland, Oregon, September 27, 2004.
“Born to Buy,” Book Event sponsored by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh, September 19, 2004
“Born to Buy,” Public Forum sponsored by Demos, New York, September 13, 2004.
“Understanding Childhood in a Commercial Culture,” presentation to Department of Sociology Yale University, September 9, 2004.
“Reflections on the Current Conjuncture,” Plenary Session, Cultural Studies Association Annual Meeting, Northeastern University, May 2004.
“Gender and Workplace Inequalities,” Meeting of the Minds, Boston College, May 2004.
Participant and Workshop Leader, Conference on “A Surplus of Living Attention,” Teresa Brennan Memorial Conference, Harvard University, May 2004.
“Re-Fashioning Clothing: Disposable Clothes, Elegant Waistlines, and an Ethic of Sustainability,” Seminar on Gender and Sexuality, Humanities Center, Harvard University, May 2004.
“Children and Consumer Culture,” Public Talk, Town School, New York, NY, May 2004.
“Consumer Culture and Children’s Well-Being,” Seminar to Department of Consumer Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 2004.
“Globalization, Consumption, and the Environment,” Talk to SHARE group, Harvard University, February 2004.
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“Women, Work and Stress,” Panel Member, Women’s Heart Day, Sister-to-Sister Foundation, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, February 2004.
“Marketing to Children: Effective Reform When the Genie is Out of the Bottle,” Consuming Kids, Third Annual Summit, Stop the Commercial Exploitation of Children, Roosevelt Hotel, New York, February 14, 2004.
“Consumption and Environment” Center for Environmental Science and Policy, Forum Speaker, Stanford University, January 2004.
“The Overworked American: A Decade On,” Campus-Wide Lecture, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, November 2003.
“The Overworked American” Seminar to School of Parks and Recreation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, November 2003.
“The Commercialization of Childhood” Seminar to Department of Sociology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, November 2003.
“Overworked and Overspent: Ethical Choices in Work and Family,” Lecture Series on Ethics and Community, Bryant College, Rhode Island, November 2003.
“Cleaning the Closet: Toward a New Ethic of Fashion,” Featured Lecture at Chicago Humanities Festival XIV, Saving+Spending, November 2003.
Opening Speaker, Take Back Your Time Day Speak-Out, Faneuil Hall, Boston, October 24, 2003.
“The Commodification of Childhood,” paper presented at session on Consumers and Consuming I, American Sociological Association Meetings, Atlanta, August 2003.
“Beyond Work and Spend,” Memorial Lecture, Association of Independent Information Professionals, 17th Annual Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, May 2003.
“Beyond the Cycle of Work and Spend: Achieving Balance,” Luncheon Address to WID (Women in Development of Greater Boston), April 2003.
“Can Americans Consume Sustainably? Ecological Lifestyles For Everyone,” Environmental Studies Department, Middlebury College, March 2003.
"Materialism and Wellness," Workshop Presented at Project Wellness: Creating Connections, Acton-Boxborough School District Conference, Merrimack College, March 2003 (also presented March 2002).
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“The Commodification of Childhood: Tales from the Advertising Front Lines,” Colloquium on the Commodification of Everything, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, February 2003.
“Emerging Trends in Consumer Culture,” Keynote to Convenience Retailing Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, February 2003
“Children and Consumer Culture,” Public Lecture, University of Connecticut, Department of Sociology, December 2002.
“Critical Perspectives on Economics 10,” Harvard University, November 2002.
“Friday Forum on Sustainable Planet,” Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, November 2002.
“The IMF and the World Bank in Perspective,” Teach-in on the IMF and World Bank, sponsored by Harvard Aids Coalition, Harvard University, September 2002.
“National Security and the American Dream,” Plenary Session, Environmental Grantmakers Association, Asheville, North Carolina, September 2002.
“Time and Sustainability,” Second Annual Century of the Environment Conference, Omega Institute and Resurgence Magazine, Rhinebeck, New York, September 2002.
“Consuming Conscientiously: Are Mature Consumers at the Cutting-Edge?” Colloquium on The Demographic Revolution: Prospects for a Maturing World, Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, Harvard University, May, 2002.
" Toward Sustainable Consumption," Public Lecture, Green Party of Flanders, Antwerp, Belgium, March 2002.
"Sustainable Consumption in the Urban Environment," Seminar, Vrij University of Brussels, Brussels, March 2002.
"Consumerism and the New Inequality," Cambridge Forum, Cambridge, Mass, December 2002.
Discussant, Conference on “What Has Happened to the Quality of Life in American and Other Advanced Countries of the World,” Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, June 2001.
“Overworked and Overspent,” Lecture of Association of Independent Schools in New England, Westford, MA, April 2001.
Seventh Annual Breakfast with a Scholar Lecture, American Occupational Therapy Foundation, Annual Conference and Exposition, Philadelphia, April 2001.
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Plenary Session, “Transforming the Culture,” Children’s Defense Fund, Annual Conference, Washington, DC, April 2001.
“Consumerism and the Environment,” Presidential Scholars Program, Boston College, February 2001.
“Balancing Work and Family in the 21st Century,” Women’s Studies, Boston College, January 2001.
“The Commercialization of Childhood,” Lecture Series on “Rethinking the 20th Century,” Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, October 2000.
Invited Speaker, Colloquium on the occasion of the publication of The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt (by Teresa Sullivan, Elizaebth Warren and Jay Lawrence Westbrook), School of Law and Department of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin, October 5, 2000.
“Work and Family: Balancing in the Twenty-First Century,” Ann Radcliffe Trust Lecture, Opening Days, Harvard University, September 2000.
“Consumption and Environment,” Presentation to Quest Scholars Program, Harvard University, July 2000.
“Search for Identity in the Internet Age,” Panel Participant, Conference on Internet & Society 2000: Changing Our Lives, Harvard University, June 2000.
“Trends in Time Use: Assessing the Controversy,” Department of Leisure Studies, University of Illinois, April 2000.
“The New Consumerism,” Blake Library, Discussion Sunday Series, Stuart Florida, April 2000.
“Trends in Time Use: Assessing the Controversy,” Center on Careers, Cornell University, January 2000.
“Addressing Economic Inequality at Home and Abroad,” New Hampshire Unitarian Universalist Social Responsibility Conference, Nashua, New Hampshire, October 1999.
“The Overspent American,” Boston Learning Center, Needham, Ma., October 1999.
“Households Under Pressure,” presentation to Boston College Center for Work and Family, Corporate Work and Family Roundtable Meeting, Cambridge, Ma., September 1999.
“The New Consumerism and Simple Living,” presentation to Unitarian Universalist Society, Wellesley, Ma., September 1999.
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“Consumerism in America,” presentation to LIFExpo, International Investment Conferences, Anaheim, California, August 1999.
“Integrating Labor and Consumer Markets,” Presentation to SSRC Summer Seminar on Labor Markets, MIT, August 1999.
“Work and Community,” Community Matters Lecture Series, Abacoa Partnership forCommunity, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, May 1999.
“The New Consumerism,” Seminar, Neiman Foundation, Harvard University, May 1999.
“The Overworked American: Developing a Balanced Lifestyle,” Talk to Faculty Development and Diversity Committee at Harvard Medical School, May 1999.
“Why We Want What We Don’t Need,” Address to Harvard Club of New York, April 1999.
“The Overspent American,” Talk at Conference on Time and Money, Marion Foundation, Marion, Massachusetts, April 1999.
“The Overspent American,” Public Address, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, March 1999.
“Recent Trends in Consumption,” Talk to Department of Sociology, University ofCalifornia/Berkeley, March 1999.
“Households Under Pressure,” Talk to Berkeley Center on Working Families, University of California/Berkeley, March 1999.
“A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century,” Talk to Harvard Trade Union Program, Harvard Univesity, March 1999.
Panel member, conference on “Twenty-Five Years of Political Economy at Barnard,” Barnard College, February 1999.
Panel member, conference on “Women Enriching Business,” Harvard Business School, January 1999.
Panel member, “Globalization, Trade and Labor Markets,” Harvard-ILO Transition Team Workshop, Harvard Center for International Development, January 1999.
“The Overspent American,” address to New England Women in Real Estate (NEWIRE), Hotel Meridien, Boston, January 1999.
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Discussant, Symposium on Children, Work and Family, Conference on work and family: Today’s Realities and Tomorrow’s Visions, Boston, 1998.
Participant, Interdisciplinary Panel on Consumption, Restraint, and Religion, Culminating Conference on Religions of the World and Ecology, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998.
Speaker, Seminar Series, General Accounting Office, 1998.
"Voluntary Reductions in Hours of Work: A Survey on Downshifting," Annual Meeting, IRRA/ASSA, 1998.
"Escaping the Cycle of Work and Spend," Lecture to Chicago Humanities Festival, 1997.
"When Spending Becomes You," Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Clairemont McKenna College, 1997.
"Does Social Class Structure Consumption?" Special Session, Annual Meeting, Association for Consumer Research, 1997.
"Voluntary Downshifting and American Consumers," Special Session, Annual Meeting, Association for Consumer Research, Denver, 1997.
"Worktime and the Decline in Civic Engagement," Conference on Civic Engagement in American Democracy, Russell Sage Foundation, 1997.
"Voluntary Downshifters in the US, 1990-1996," Annual Meeting, Academy of Management, Symposium, 1997.
"Do Americans Keep up with the Joneses?: The Impact of Consumption Aspirations on Savings Behaviour," Seminar, Queens College, Cambridge University, 1997.
"Do Americans Keep up with the Joneses: The Impact of Consumption Aspirations on Savings Behaviour," Macro Seminar, CEnter, Tilburg University, 1997.
"Refugees from the `Fat and Mean' Economy: Downshifting in the 1990s," David Gordon Memorial Conference, New School for Social Research, 1997.
"Beyond Work and Spend: New Attitudes to Work, Time, Leisure and Consumption," Public Lecture, New Ways to Work, London, 1996.
Toward a New Theory of Consumption," Series of Three Lectures, Havens Center, Sociology Department, University of Wisconsin, 1996.
"Beyond Work and Spend," Arizona Humanities Council, Communities in Transition Project, 1996.
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"Work and Time," World Economic Forum, Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, 1996.
"New Research on Consumer Behavior: Addressing the Quality of Life Issues," Conference on Economics and Journalism, MacArthur Foundation, University of Massachusetts, 1995.
"Consumerism and the Decline of Family and Community,” Faculty Family Seminar, Harvard Divinity School, 1995.
"Gender, Time, and Money: New Employment Models for the Twenty-First Century," University of North Carolina/ Greensboro, Department of Leisure Studies and Women's Studies, 1995.
Faculty Address, Junior Parents Weekend, Harvard College, 1995.
"Toward Sustainable Consumption," Environmental Studies Program, Innis College, University of Toronto, 1995.
"Unequal Distributions: Time, Work and Family in the Contemporary United States," Seminar, MacArthur Foundation, 1995.
"Empirical Tests of Status Consumption," Annual Meeting, AEA/ASSA, 1995."Worktime in America: The Challenge for Policymakers," Labor Issues Seminar, National Conference of State Legislatures," San Juan, 1994.
"New Models of Employment for the Twenty-First Century," Boston Human Resources Association, 1994.
“Women and Change: Escaping the Cycle of Work-and-Spend," Women and RecoveryConference, Greenville, S.C., 1994.
"The Challenge of Consumption: Strategies for Individual and Institutional Change," Plenary Session, Environmental Grantmakers Association Conference, Bretton Woods, 1994.
"The Stress of Modernity," paper for "Looking Back to the Future," Library of Congress Conference, 1994.
"Consumption and the Quality of Life," Conference on Consumption, Global Stewardship, and the Good Life, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland, 1994.
"Time, Work and Money: Toward a Quality of Life Politics," Plenary Session, Center for Popular Economics Fifteenth Anniversary Conference, Northampton, Mass, 1994.
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"Time, Work and Money: Next Challenges," Leadership Institute on Work and Family, Center on Work and Family, Boston University, 1994.
"The Overworked American," Palm Tree Educational Conference, California Credit Union League, Palm Desert, California, 1994.
"Consumption Growth and Sustainability," Plenary Address to Defining SustainableCommunities Conference, Tides Foundation, Oakland, California, 1994.
"Sustainability, Economic Growth, and Politics," Freedom Forum Symposium, Oakland, California, 1994.
“Breaking the Cycle of Work and Spend," Seminar, Department of Leisure Studies, Tilburg University, 1994.
"Rethinking the Distribution of Jobs, Income and Time," Radcliffe Conference of the same name, 1994.
"Status Consumption: Empirical Results for the United States," Seminar, Economics Department, University of Notre Dame, 1994.
."New Policies for Reducing Working Hours," Address to the Advisory Group on Working Time and the Distribution of Work, Government of Canada, Toronto, 1994.
"Is More Better? Work and Productivity in the 1990s," Harvard University Library Professional Development Committee, 1994.
"Assessing Work-Family Initiatives," Videotaped Presentation, The National Work and Family Alliance Summit, 1994.
Forum on "Labor and Leisure," Massachusetts Council of Churches, Framingham, Massachusetts, 1994.
"The Prospects for Stabilizing Consumption in the North," Annual Meeting, Eastern Economics Association, 1994.
"Work and Family: Challenges for Public Policy," Seminar on Future Directions for American Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1994.
"Overworked Americans: Can We Reclaim Our Leisure?" Wesleyan Forum, Boston, 1994.
"Technological Unemployment: Is It a Problem?" Plenary Address, Conference on the Social and Economics Consequences of the High Technology Revolution, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994.
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"Economic Competitiveness and Leisure," Plenary Address, Annual Meeting, URPE/ASSA, 1994.
Discussant, Session on "Motivation and Monitoring," Annual Meeting, AEA/ASSA, 1994.
"Revisioning Worktime: New Models of Employment for the 21st Century," Conference on Working in the 21st Century: Gender and Beyond," UCLA, Institute of Industrial Relations, 1993. (Published in Working in the 21st Century: Gender and Beyond, Judith Glass, editor, Los Angeles: Institute of Industrial Relations, UCLA).
"The Shorter Workweek," Conference on Workplace Fairness, Jobs with Justice, Roxbury Community College, 1993.
"Analyzing the Overworked American," Lecture, The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, 1993.
"Working Hours and the Gendering of Employment Norms," SPURS Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993.
"Gender and Working Time: Beyond Male Models of Employment," Murray Research Center, Radcliffe College, 1993.
"Why Shorter Hours Are Profitable," Lecture to KEIDANREN, (Federation of Japanese Employers), Tokyo, 1993.
"The Overworked American: The Japan-U.S. Comparison," Public Lecture, Tokyo Municipal Building, Tokyo, 1993.
"The Clinton Administration's Economic Policy," Seminar, Department of Economics, Ritsumeikan University, 1993.
"Working Hours in the Postwar U.S.," Seminar, Department of Economics, Hitotsobashi University, 1993.
"The Prospects for Stabilizing and Reducing Consumption in the North," WIDERConference on Macroeconomics and the Environment, Oxford University, 1993.
"Computers and Working Time," Conference on Computers and Social Change, Boston Computer Society, Roxbury Community College, 1993.
"Working Hours and Personnel Policies," Washington Personnel Association, 1993.
"Worktime, Efficiency and Employee Morale," Treasury Executive Institute, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1993.
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"The Overworked American: How the Time Squeeze is Becoming a Key Workplace Issue and How Your Organization Must Respond," Training Director's Forum, 1993.
Selections from The Overworked American, Boston Public Library, 1993.
"Consumerism and Working Hours," Center for Psychology and Social Change, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1993.
"Work and Stress in the US and Japan," Japan-American Society/City Club of Seattle, 1993.
"Reflections on the Overworked American," Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Clairemont McKenna College, 1993.
"The Overworked American: Transforming Gender and Work in the 1990s," Women's Studies, LBJ School, School of Management and Economics Department, University of Texas, 1993.
Comments on Fred Block for "Beyond Stalemate: The Politics of Economic Renewal," Future Directions for American Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1993.
"The Overworked Attorney: Recovering Time for Self and Family," Harvard Law School, 1993.
"Working Hours and U.S. Unions," Harvard Trade Union Program, Harvard University, 1993.
"Working Shorter Hours: Is It Economically Feasible? How Can It Be Done?," Boston Work-Family Forum, 1993.
"The Overworked American," Best of America Conference, Tampa, Florida, 1993.
"Work, Leisure and Consumption: The Postwar U.S. Experience," Labor Studies Department, McMaster University, 1993.
"Trends in U.S. Working Hours: Assessing the Controversy," New School for Social Research, 1993."Assessing the Economic Status of Women," World Economic Forum, Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, 1993.
"Business, Labour and the State," World Economic Forum, Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, 1993.
"The Overworked American," The Cambridge Forum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992.
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"Public Policy and Working Hours" Solicitor-General's Seminar Series, Department of Labor, 1992.
"Are Women Squeezed for Time?: Trends in U.S. Working Hours," Invited Session, American Statistical Association Meetings, Boston, MA, August 1992.
"Work and Family Conflicts," Center on Work and Family, Boston University, 1992.Moderator for "Work and Family" panel, Work/Family Conference, Conference Board, New York, 1992.
"Reflections on The Overworked American," Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 1992.
"The Overworked American," CEO Leadership Conference, Emory Business School, 1992.
"Women and Development: Lessons from the U.S. Case," at Women and Development: A Colloquium, Harvard University, 1991.
"On the Household Labor Literature: Biases in Relative Prices," Center for European Studies Symposium on "Gender, Politics and Culture," 1990.
"Working Hours and Leisure Time in the Postwar United States," Economics Department, Wellesley College, 1990.
"Is There a Time Squeeze?" Industrial Relations Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989.
"The Debate over Manufacturing versus Services," Shifting Gears, Conference sponsored by the Massachusetts Foundation on the Humanities and Public Policy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1989.
"Labor in the 1990s: Gender Issues," Provost's Mini-Symposium, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1989.
"Work Intensity and the Macroeconomy," Economics Department, American University, 1989.
"Work Intensity and the Cost of Job Loss," Economics Department, UC Berkeley, 1989.
"Non-Walrasian Approaches to the Determination of Hours," Annual Meeting, URPE/ASSA, 1988.
"Global Equity and Working Hours," Institute for World Development, Boston University, 1988.
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"Structural Determinants and Economic Effects of Capital Controls in the OECD," Conference on Financial Openness, World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), Helsinki, 1988.
"Too Many Hours: Work and Leisure in the 1990s," Conference on "The Economy in the '90s: New Voices, New Proposals," Lyndon Baines Johnson School Library and School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas, 1988.
"Corporate Profitability as a Determinant of Restrictive Monetary Policy: Estimates for the Postwar United States," Annual Meeting, AEA/ASSA, 1987.
"Does Work Intensity Respond to Macroeconomic Variables?" National Bureau of Economic Research, Summer Institute, Labor Markets and the Macroeconomy, 1987.
"Minimum Wages and Economic Development," Conference on American Wages, Incomes and Public Policy, John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts, 1987.
"The Political Economy of Central Banking," Conference on Global Macroeconomic Policies, World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), Helsinki, 1986.
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