0 the activity of renting land and giving part of the crop you produce on it as rent, especially in the past in the US :
If you didn't have an education, you were going to end up picking cotton or sharecropping.
Sharecropping and tenant farming trapped families for generations.
Johnson avoided the sharecropping life he seemed destined for and took to the road.
After a number of experiments with various labour arrangements, the system that eventually came to dominate was sharecropping.
If one looks at the theoretical literature, sharecropping is alive and quite important.
The system also allows for the emergence of various forms of risk management including sharecropping and temporary land loaning in exchange for cash payments.
The effects of sharecropping on technical progress have never been properly tested, in so far as this author is aware.
Individuals who entered into a sharecropping contract had a highly speculative frame of mind and thus they were not ready to invest.
