What Could Possibly Go Right?

#46 Juliet Schor: Flipping the Script on Work, Consumption, and Democracy


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Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College, a member of the MacArthur Foundation Connected Learning Research Network, and co-founder of the Center for a New American Dream. Schor’s research focuses on consumption, time use, and environmental sustainability. Her books include After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win it Back (2020), The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need (1998), and The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (1992).

She is also the vice-chair of the board of the Better Future Project, one of the country’s most successful climate activism organizations.

She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:

  • The growing global climate movement and activism
  • The success of experiments in universal basic income and services
  • The increasing rates of democratic engagement and activation
  • The rising popularity of a four-day workweek, without losing productivity
  • The benefits of de-legitimizing of extreme wealth

Resources

  • Center for a New American Dream www.newdream.org
  • Better Future Project www.betterfutureproject.org

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