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.
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
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Varying Form of Title:Illness, injury, and illegality among U.S. farmworkers
ISBN:9780520962545
0520962540
9780520283268
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 06, 2016).
Summary:"They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields takes the reader on an ethnographic tour of the melon and corn harvesting fields in California's Central Valley to understand why farmworkers die at work each summer. Laden with captivating detail of farmworkers' daily work and home lives, Horton examines how U.S. immigration policy and the historic exclusion of farmworkers from the promises of liberalism has made migrant farmworkers what she calls 'exceptional workers.' She explores the deeply intertwined political, legal, and social factors that place Latino migrants at particular risk of illness and injury in the fields, as well as the patchwork of health care, disability, and Social Security policies that provide them little succor when they become sick or grow old. The book takes an in-depth look at the work risks faced by migrants at all stages of life: as teens, in their middle-age, and ultimately as elderly workers. By following the lives of a core group of farmworkers over nearly a decade, Horton provides a searing portrait of how their precarious immigration and work statuses culminate in preventable morbidity and premature death"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:Print version: Horton, Sarah Bronwen. "They leave their kidneys in the fields". Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] 9780520283268

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505 0 |a Introduction: "They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields" -- Entering farmwork : migrations and men's work identities -- Burning up : heat illness in California's fields -- Identity loan : document exchange in migrant communities -- "Child neglect" : the invisible labor of teens -- Alt presión : the physiological toll of farmwork -- Ivaro's casket : heat illness and chronic disease at work -- "Desabilitado" : kidney disease and the disability assistance hole -- Diverted retirement : the pension crisis among elderly farmworkers -- Conclusion : strategies towards change -- Appendix A. On engaged anthropology and ethnographic writing -- Appendix B. Methods -- Appendix C. Synopses of core research participants. 
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