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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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current affairs, sociology, Pornographie, Black market, Economie souterraine, Marché noir, Schwarzarbeit, Social Conditions, Illegale Einwanderung, Vermarktung, Informal sector (Economics), Erotica, Marijuana abuse, Economics, Drogenhandel, Transients and Migrants, Illegale Beschäftigung, Illegal aliens, Case studies, Sex-oriented businesses, Pornography, Migrant agricultural laborers, informal sector, sex-oriented business, marijuana, migrant labor, Informal sector (economics), Marijuana, Drug abuse, Drug control, Secteur informel (Économie politique), Études de cas, Abus, Jing ji, Noncitizens, Illegal immigrationPeople
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Reefer Madness: ... and Other Tales from the American Underground
2013, Penguin Books, Limited
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Da ma. cao mei yuan. se qing wang guo
2005, Shi bao wen hua
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
2004, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
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Porno, marihuana y espaldas mojadas/ Reefer Madness: La Economia Sumergida En Estados Unidos/ Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market (Arena Abierta/ Open Sand)
June 30, 2004, Debate Editorial
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
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Reefer Madness Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
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Reefer Madness and Other Tales from the American Underground
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
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