THEY LEAVE THEIR KIDNEYS IN THE FIELDS by Sarah Horton ( 9780520283268 )

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THEY LEAVE THEIR KIDNEYS IN THE FIELDS
ILLNESS, INJURY, AND ILLEGALITY AMONG U.S. FARMWORKERS

By:

Sarah Horton

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Hardback

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0520283260

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9780520283268

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Pub. date:

19 July, 2016

Series:

California Series in Public Anthropology 40

Pages:

312

Description:

Takes the reader on a 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. The author documents in detail how a tightly interwoven web of public policies and private interests create needless suffering.

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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 web of public policies and private interests creates exceptional and needless suffering.

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University of California Press

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