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Descriptioninformation Title They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Illness, Injury, and Illegality among U.S. Farmworkers. Author Sarah Bronwen Horton Publisher Univ of California Press, 2016 ISBN 0520962540, 9780520962545 Length 312 pages Subjects Social Science › Anthropology › Cultural & Social 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. Sharing Widget |