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Reefer Madness
Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
by Eric Schlosser
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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 kid's 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 technology 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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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 controlPeople
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Table of Contents
The underground -- | ||
Reefer madness -- | ||
In the strawberry fields -- | ||
An empire of the obscene -- | ||
Out of the underground -- | ||
Afterword : more madness. |
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-311) and index.
"A Mariner book."
Originally published: 2003. With new afterword.
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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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