They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Illness, Injury, and Illegality Among U.S. Farmworkers Volume 40

by Sarah Horton

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They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields takes the reader on an ethnographic tour of the melon and corn harvesting fields of California's Central Valley to understand why farmworkers suffer heatstroke and chronic illness at rates higher than workers in any other industry. Through captivating accounts of the daily lives of a core group of farmworkers over nearly a decade, Sarah Bronwen Horton documents in startling detail how a tightly interwoven...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520283279

ISBN13:9780520283275

Release Date:July 2016

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:0.86 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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