Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
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    [synopsis] => New York Times Bestseller: The shadowy world of "off the books" businesses-from marijuana to migrant workers-brought to life by the author of Fast Food Nation.
 
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 award-winning investigative journalist Eric Schlosser turns his exacting eye to the underbelly of American capitalism and its far-reaching influence on our society.
 
Exposing three American mainstays-pot, porn, and illegal immigrants-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.
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    [subtitle] => Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
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