Using interviews interspersed with analysis, the book captures the lives of the 1.5 million people who work in the nation's fruit and vegetable fields.

She owns and tends her vegetable field on the outskirts of town.

Every year at this time, the restaurant kitchens and vegetable fields of California empty out.

"For a little corner of the vegetable field, you'll get a whole lot of land up here.'"

Joe found her there when he came back from the vegetable field.

We'll keep this land for a vegetable field.

They worked the vegetable fields from six to three, stopping only for lunch at noon.

Scalsior's job was to open and close the locks on a small irrigation ditch deep in the vegetable fields.

He was working in a large vegetable field with seven other prisoners.

By a vote of 1,800 to 1,300, townspeople decided to keep the fruit trees and vegetable fields from being turned into building lots.