They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Illness, Injury, and Illegality among U.S. Farmworkers by Sarah Horton

They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Illness, Injury, and Illegality among U.S. Farmworkers

Sarah Horton

312 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced

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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...

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