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Reefer Madness : Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser (2003, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100618334661
ISBN-139780618334667
eBay Product ID (ePID)2321351

Product Key Features

Book TitleReefer Madness : Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicEntheogens & Visionary Substances, Emigration & Immigration, Commerce, Popular Culture, Economics / General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Psychopathology / Addiction
GenreBody, Mind & Spirit, Social Science, Psychology, Business & Economics
TypeTextbook
AuthorEric Schlosser
FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight21.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-192164
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal330
Table Of ContentContents 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 Notes 225 Bibliography 284 Acknowledgments 293 Index 295
Edition DescriptionTeacher's edition
SynopsisIn 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. Hereveals 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., Schlosser, author of "Fast Food Nation, " offers an unprecedented view of the nexus of ingenuity, greed, high-mindedness, and hypocrisy that is American culture. He reveals the vast and fascinating workings of the shadow economy by focusing on marijuana, pornography, and illegal migrant workers.
LC Classification NumberHD2346.U52S34 2003
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