Brandon T.'s review of Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser
Brandon T.'s review
rating:
recommended for:
Sociologists, Those interested in American culture
status:
Read in April, 2007
Eric Schlosser has made a name for himself by probing behind the scenes of popular American phenomena. He became famous for the Fast Food Nation, which was later turned into a filmm.
Schlosser's subject matter may trend towards the pop world, but his cross of investigative journalism and postmodernist sociology is both fresh and informative. It is obvious that he takes his material as seriously as any professional observer, and the reader reaps the reward of his work in the form of a much clearer understanding of the ways that American culture impacts the lives of real individuals.
In this book, Schlosser explores the American black market trade, as it has developed around three much different parts of society - the world of marijuana cultivation and sale, the immigrant labor market in California's fruit fields, and the nearly legitimized pornography industry.
Although there is a bit of a disconnect from section to section (which makes the book read almost like three), each is...more
Schlosser's subject matter may trend towards the pop world, but his cross of investigative journalism and postmodernist sociology is both fresh and informative. It is obvious that he takes his material as seriously as any professional observer, and the reader reaps the reward of his work in the form of a much clearer understanding of the ways that American culture impacts the lives of real individuals.
In this book, Schlosser explores the American black market trade, as it has developed around three much different parts of society - the world of marijuana cultivation and sale, the immigrant labor market in California's fruit fields, and the nearly legitimized pornography industry.
Although there is a bit of a disconnect from section to section (which makes the book read almost like three), each is...more
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