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 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.