Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market (Google eBook)

Eric Schlosser

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Apr 1, 2004 - Social Science - 320 pages

America’s 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 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.

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

User Review  - Pete Johnson - Goodreads

Was not a BAD book, I just thought that it read like more of a research paper. The main qualm I had with it was that it felt really outdated. It was written in 2003, and sooo many things have changed since then.

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

User Review  - Amanda - Goodreads

This incredibly engaging book was a fantastic read. The first article dealt with the criminalization of marajuana and how much misinformation is out there about it. I was absolutely appalled to learn ...

Contents

• The Underground: 1
• 1 Reefer Madness: 11
• 2 In the Strawberry Fields: 75
• 3 An Empire of the Obscene: 109
• Out of the Underground: 211
• More Madness: 223
• Notes: 241
• Bibliography: 303
• Acknowledgments: 313
• Index: 315
• About the Author: 338
• Back Cover: 339
• Spine: 340

About the author

Eric Schlosser is a correspondent for the Atlantic. His work has als

Bibliographic information

• Title: Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
• Author: Eric Schlosser
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004
• ISBN: 054752675X, 9780547526751
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Popular Culture