| Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market Contributor(s): Schlosser, Eric (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618446702 ISBN-13: 9780618446704 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2004 Annotation: The bestselling author of "Fast Food Nation" turns his exacting eye on the underbelly of the American marketplace and its far-reaching influence on society, exposing three American mainstays--pot, porn, and illegal immigrants. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Business & Economics | Economics - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 330 |
| LCCN: 2002192164 |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 5.56" W x 8.38" (0.79 lbs) 336 pages |
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| Publisher Description: America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqu 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 black markets as well as mainstream ones, and how big business learns -- and profits -- from the underground. Reefer Madness is a powerful investigation that illuminates the shadow economy and the culture that casts that shadow. |
Contributor Bio(s): Schlosser, Eric: - Eric Schlosser is a correspondent for the Atlantic. His work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, the Nation, and The New Yorker. He has received a National Magazine Award and a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for reporting. In 1998 Schlosser wrote an investigative piece on the fast food industry for Rolling Stone. What began as a two-part article for the magazine turned into the New York Times bestseller Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. His other books include Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market and Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food, a children's book he cowrote with Charles Wilson. |