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

Author: Eric Schlosser Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Politics, Economics, History, Mystery, Crime, True crime Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780618446704 0618446702

America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risque 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. (back cover) Similar books: Janesville by Amy Goldstein Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich Parkland by Dave Cullen The Working Poor by David K. Shipler $2.00 a Day by Kathryn Edin Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber Our Kids by Robert D. Putnam Coming Apart by Charles Murray The American Way of Poverty by Sasha Abramsky McMafia by Misha Glenny McMafia Brain Shot by Misha Glenny Dreamland by Sam Quinones El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency by Ioan Grillo Dark Alliance by Gary Webb A Crime So Monstrous by E. Benjamin Skinner Gangster Warlords by Ioan Grillo The Art of Political Murder by Francisco Goldman Not in Your Lifetime by Anthony Summers ZeroZeroZero by Roberto Saviano Dead Wrong by Richard Belzer