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And Other Tales from the American Underground
by Eric Schlosser (2003)

Three essays on different aspects of American underground — marijuana trade (Reefer Madness), migrant labourers (In the Strawberry Fields) and porn industry (An Empire of the Obscene) — offering general, if rather superficial and unsatisfying, view of ‘illicit’ industry.

What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World
by Eric Schlosser (2001)

A well-researched and very readable example of popular journalism on a topic that has attracted increasing concerns and antagonism. By now an average person would at least have a vague rancour for its nutritionally-empty, junk calories if not for its “McAmericanism”. But what really lurks behind those buns, the high school kids behind the counters, the slaughterhouse, the laboratories that manufacture the globally uniform smell of those “barbecued meat patty”? This book tells the history of fast-food industry and its impacts on social and cultural landscape.