Reefer Madness Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market

Name: Reefer Madness Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
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ISBN: 9780618446704

ISBN-10: 0618446702

ISBN-13: 9780618446704

Edition: 2003

Authors: Eric Schlosser, Eric Schlosser

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Americas black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his exacting eye on the underbelly of the American marketplace and its far-reaching influence on our society. Exposing three American mainstays - pot, porn, and illegal immigrants - Eric Schlosser shows how the black market has burgeoned over the past several decades. He also draws compelling parallels between underground and overground: how tycoons and gangsters rise and fall, how new techonology shapes a market, how government intervention can reinvigorate…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Eric Schlosser, a contributing editor at the Atlantic Monthly, won a National Magazine Award for an article he wrote on strawberry picking for that magazine. His work has been nominated for several other National Magazine Awards and for the Loeb Award for business journalism.



The Underground



Reefer Madness



In the Strawberry Fields



An Empire of the Obscene


Out of the Underground


Afterword: More Madness


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index