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No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs
by Naomi Klein
from Picador
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Confessions of a No Logo Survivor 
In mid-nineteenth century England, poet William Blake indignantly portrayed poor children sneaking a peek from the windows of the factories where they slaved fifteen hours a day, to watch the rich and beautiful cavort in the meadows with their hounds and horses. In the United States of the 1920's, Socialists reveled in contrasting the plight of the downtrodden workers with the opulence of the Robber Barons who lived off their labor. Today, to someone sensitive to the plight of the world's poor, little could... more info
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Amazing book with a lot of things to do with globalization 
This book is extremely useful and important and has a lot of thing to do with society.
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Thorough and tendentious
This book may be necessary reading for the socially and politically aware adult in the internet age. Klein's writing is more balanced than partisan critics might have you believe, and her work on this 490-page polemic has been very thorough. While she raises serious concerns, she eschews facile solutions. For this reason I recommend it to serious readers of all political hues - it is not simple propaganda, and Klein is as aware of the weaknesses in the anti-corporate backlash as she is of those in their... more info
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No Logo=kind of out of date and a big read
No Logo is a book about the capitalist takeover on the world. For me I was real excited to read up on how the corporate world is screwing us over taking up every nook and cranny of the public and private space. The brand is almighty, and everyone without a keen eye worships the brand (ie Nike). Its a bit out of date because there are newer ways for the brand to seep into the public conciousness that aren't explained obviously before cell phones got bigger and with the popular explosion of online streaming... more info
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