Exempel på sharecropper

• In general, the region lacked a significant number of white small farmers, even of tenants and sharecroppers.

• This incentive will be smaller for a sharecropper, who would get only a half of the additional output, than for a fixed-rent tenant.

• The old generation, born between 1915 and 1920, were mostly tenant farmers, sharecroppers, or plantation workers.

• The landlord had to lease 210 hectares of his 318 hectares to sixty former sharecroppers under a fixed rent arrangement.

• With inheritance, the ownerships of these landowners had grown too small to be economical, forcing them to migrate and rent the land to sharecroppers.

• As mentioned, the two capitalist farms were seized and parceled out among former sharecroppers, farmworkers, and its two landowners.

• Most households were sharecroppers at the same level in the village's social hierarchy and lacking any appreciable internal socio-economic differentiation.

• The legal discourse from the classical period understood that the tenant/sharecropper/labourer was a necessary part of the functioning of the agrarian regime.

• The majority of households use the system but sharecroppers do not.

• The sharecroppers depended totally on the landowners for their livelihood.

• It is misleading to argue, however, that mechanisation replaced labour and that former sharecroppers were driven by poverty to urban areas.

• Landlords, jotedars, tenant proprietors, sharecroppers and a host of other intermediaries all claimed a part of the produce of each plot of land.

• Once the migrant worker established his/her loyalty to the indigenous farmer, they may be contracted as sharecroppers.

• Planters eventually acquiesced because they maintained control over crucial productive decisions : cotton is what they wanted, and cotton is what the sharecroppers grew.

• French agriculture after 1850 would, in theory, have seen sharecroppers climb the farming ladder and switch to fixed-rent contracts.