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

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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 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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Horton, Sarah Bronwen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Migrant agricultural laborers > Social conditions.
Migrant agricultural laborers > Health and hygiene.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Migrant agricultural laborers > California > Central Valley > Social conditions.
Migrant agricultural laborers > Health and hygiene > California > Central Valley.
California > Central Valley.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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