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

Schlosser, Eric

ISBN 10 : 0743530209 ISBN 13 : 9780743530200

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Audioworks, 2003

Synopsis

Book by Eric Schlosser

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: Simon & Schuster Audioworks
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0743530209
• ISBN 13: 9780743530200
• Reliure: CD