Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780618446704)

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.

Author: Eric Schlosser
ISBN-10: 0618446702
ISBN-13: 9780618446704
Publisher: Mariner Books
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2004
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.56w x 0.93d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 03/28/2004 pg. 16