Download or read book They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields written by Sarah Bronwen Horton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 in any other industry. Through captivating accounts of the daily lives of a core group of farmworkers over nearly a decade, Sarah Bronwen Horton documents in startling detail how a tightly interwoven web of public policies and private interests creates exceptional and needless suffering.