They leave their kidneys in the fields : illness, injury, and illegality among U.S. farmworkers /
"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, Horto...
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| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | California series in public anthropology ;
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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.
