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.