They leave their kidneys in the fields : illness, injury, and illegality among U.S. farmworkers /
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Author / Creator: | Horton, Sarah Bronwen, author. |
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Imprint: | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] ©2016 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | California series in public anthropology ; 40 California series in public anthropology ; 40. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11755454 |
Summary: | 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. <br> <br> <br> <br> |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520962545 0520962540 9780520283268 |