Exempel på sharecropping

• 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.

• Sharecropping was positively related to illiteracy, although not to race.

• Stage two aimed at eradicating tenancy, especially sharecropping.

• First, sharecropping seems to have been adopted only in some countries and only in some areas of them.

• This could explain, secondly, the choice of a contract such as sharecropping which allowed landlords to supply the necessary managerial expertise.

• As the constitution permits, short-term leases, such as rental and sharecropping, are practiced all over the country in response to land scarcity in all regions.

• The evidence, admittedly incomplete (for a decline in tenanted farms) or very flimsy (for a decline in sharecropping), tells a different story.

• While economists are fascinated by short-term efficiency, historians focus on the negative effects of sharecropping on technical progress.

• By focusing on transaction costs, economic historians have been able to explain a variety of institutional arrangements, including the firm, sharecropping, and manorial contracts.

• The mid-nineteenth-century literature often identifies the advantages of sharecropping for landless labourers wishing to climb the farming ladder.

• Sharecropping is arguably one of the most controversial subjects in agricultural economics.