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Key insights from Naomi Klein's
No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs
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Discover the history behind the rise of branding, how it infiltrates every inch of our lives, and the movements emerging around the world to fight it.
Since the 1980s, many economists and historians have claimed that the spread of capitalism is the reason for staggering improvements around the world. But if capitalism has done so much good, why are many people in America voicing resentment toward it today? In this Snapshot, you'll learn why.
Read this Snapshot if you:
- Want to know how corporate strategy has led to economic anxiety
- Are interested in seeing through the ads that take up more and more of our space
- Would like to know how to resist corporate power
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Introduction
No Logo was published in 1999, but every word feels like it could’ve been written today. It documented how multinational corporations were decimating our economic landscape, and it predicted that the inevitable reaction would be a growing resentment toward the rich, globalism, and even capitalism itself.
In this book, the author also examines the resistance movements that were cropping up around the globe to fight against the insidious powers of those corporations, foreshadowing the emergence of now infamous protests like Occupy Wall Street. Today, we can see how that anger has...
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