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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0618334661
ISBN-13
9780618334667
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2321351
Product Key Features
Book Title
Reefer Madness : Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
Entheogens & Visionary Substances, Emigration & Immigration, Commerce, Popular Culture, Economics / General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Psychopathology / Addiction
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science, Psychology, Business & Economics
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-192164
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
330
Table Of Content
Contents 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 Description
Teacher's edition
Synopsis
In 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 Number
HD2346.U52S34 2003
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