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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the Black Market
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the Black Market Compact disc - 2003

by Eric Schlosser; Schlosser Eric; Eric Schlosser


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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 -- or 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. 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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  • Title Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the Black Market
  • Author Eric Schlosser; Schlosser Eric; Eric Schlosser
  • Binding Compact Disc
  • Edition Unabridged
  • Volumes 8
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio, New York
  • Date May 1, 2003
  • ISBN 9780743530200 / 0743530209
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.14 x 5.06 x 1.33 in (15.60 x 12.85 x 3.38 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004568188
  • Dewey Decimal Code 330
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