The history of clothing practices provides guidance for fashioning a new ethic that emphasizes quality over quantity, longevity over novelty, and ver…

- Juliet B. Schor

Striving for longevity through versatility facilitates what we might call an ecological or true materialism. ... we are not truly materialist because…

- Juliet B. Schor

It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from their sensuously va…

- Juliet B. Schor

Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to cr…

- Juliet B. Schor

We are social animals and we have a hierarachical and unequal society. It is a class society, and the class system creates and perpetuates the social…

- Juliet B. Schor