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Naomi Klein

Business and economics

First published: 1999
Print length: 502 pagesPicador, 2002

Description

Naomi Klein examines how corporations shifted their emphasis from making products to constructing brands capable of occupying public space, culture, employment, and personal identity. Organized into sections on corporate space, consumer choice, labor, and resistance, the book connects familiar logos to sweatshops, censorship, unstable work, and diminishing alternatives. Case studies involving companies such as Nike, The Gap, McDonald’s, Shell, and Microsoft show how brand-centered strategies operate across different industries. Klein then turns to the movements that challenge this power, including culture jamming and Reclaim the Streets. By linking production conditions with advertising and activism, the book offers a broad critique of corporate globalization and explains why battles over images, streets, jobs, and consumer choices became parts of the same political struggle.

Reading profile

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Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).

Writing: How much attention the sentences and language require.
Ideas: How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
Structure: How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
Background knowledge: Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
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Writing style

Direct · Essayistic · Journalistic

Pace

Moderate

Tone

Cerebral · Dark · Earnest

Structure

Argumentative

Focus

Argument · Ideas · Information

Emotional intensity

3 / 5

Reading complexity

1–5 · higher means more demanding

Writing: 3 / 5
Ideas: 4 / 5
Structure: 3 / 5
Background knowledge: 2 / 5

Themes

CommunityInequalityOppressionPolitics and ideologyPowerWork

About Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, activist, and filmmaker whose work brings political economy into contact with journalism, history, and social movements. She gained international attention with No Logo, an investigation of how corporate branding extends into culture, labor, and public life. Her characteristic method is to build a broad argument from reporting, case studies, and research, tracing the connections between policies that are often discussed separately. The Shock Doctrine examines how crises can create openings for privatization and deregulation, while This Changes Everything treats climate change as inseparable from an economic order committed to extraction and perpetual growth. Klein’s recurring concern is the way corporate power converts instability, public needs, and even dissent into opportunities for profit. Her later work also broadens the form of her criticism: Doppelganger begins with the personal experience of being confused with Naomi Wolf, then uses that disorientation to examine conspiracy thinking, political polarization, and the distorted expression of genuine social fears.

Book details

For the print edition listed above.

Publisher: Picador
Language: English
ISBN: 9780312203436, 9780312421434

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