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

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Reefer Madness
Eric Schlosser
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An edition of Reefer Madness (2003)

Reefer Madness

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

  • 4.00 ·
  • 3 Ratings
  • 21 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

In Reefer Madness, the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation investigates America's black market and its far-reaching influence on our society through three of its mainstays -- pot, porn, and illegal immigrants. The underground economy is vast; it comprises perhaps 10 percent -- perhaps more -- of America's overall economy, and it's on the rise. Eric Schlosser charts this growth, and finds its roots in the nexus of ingenuity, greed, idealism, and hypocrisy that is American culture. He reveals the fascinating workings of the shadow economy by focusing on marijuana, one of the nation's largest cash crops; pornography, whose greatest beneficiaries include Fortune 100 companies; and illegal migrant workers, whose lot often resembles that of medieval serfs.

All three industries show how the black market has burgeoned over the past three decades, as America's reckless faith in the free market has combined with a deep-seated puritanism to create situations both preposterous and tragic. Through pot, porn, and migrants, Schlosser traces compelling parallels between underground and overground: how tycoons and gangsters rise and fall, how new technology shapes a market, how government intervention can reinvigorate black markets as well as mainstream ones, how big business learns -- and profits -- from the underground.

With intrepid reportage, rich history, and incisive argument, Schlosser illuminates the shadow economy and the culture that casts that shadow.

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Da ma. cao mei yuan. se qing wang guo
2005, Shi bao wen hua
in Chinese - Chu ban
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
2004, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
in English
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Reefer Madness
February 26, 2004, Penguin Books Ltd
in English
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
2004, Houghton Mifflin Company, Houghton Mifflin
Paperback in English - 1st Mariner Books ed. (1)
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Reefer Madness
May 1, 2003, Allen Lane
Paperback in English
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
2003, Houghton Mifflin Company
Paperback in English - 1st printing
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
2003, Houghton Mifflin Company
Hardcover in English - 1st printing
Cover of: Reefer Madness
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
2003, Houghton Mifflin Company
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