Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market - Couverture rigide

Schlosser, Eric

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0618334661 ISBN 13 : 9780618334667

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003

Synopsis

Book by Schlosser Eric

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Eric Schlosser is an author and investigative journalist based in New York. His first book, FAST FOOD NATION, was a major international bestseller (Allen Lane, 2001). His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone and the Guardian.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0618334661
• ISBN 13: 9780618334667
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 310