288 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
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First Published in 1983. Of all the social relationships that exist in the countryside in contemporary poor countries, and which have existed in the past in ‘developed’ countries, that of share tenancy is among the most significant and the most fascinating. It is, and has been, geographically widespread, varied in its manifestations, and historically tenacious. Sharecropping has been singled out... Read more
A. SHARECROPPING IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: A GENERAL TREATMENT; Historical Perspectives on Sharecropping; B. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SHARECROPPING Sharecropping: Towards a Marxist View; Classical Theory of Rent and Its Application to India: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Sharecropping; Cropsharing as a Labour Process; Sharecropping: Some Illustrations; Sharecropping as an Efficient System: Further Answers to an Old Puzzle; C. CONCRETE ANALYSIS OF SHARECROPPING: INDIVIDUAL COUNTRY STUDIES Sharecropping and the Plantation Economy in the United States South; The Cycle of Sharecropping and the Consolidation of Small Peasant Ownership in Turkey; Tuscan Sharecropping in United Italy: The Myth of Class Collaboration Destroyed; The Introduction of Free Labour on Sao Paulo Coffee Plantations; The Sharecropping Economy on the South African Highveld in the Early Twentieth Century; Sharecroppers and Landlords in Bengal, 1930–50: The Dependency Web and its Implications; The Major Mode of Surplus Labour Appropriation in the West Malaysian Countryside: The Sharecropping System
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T.J. Byres
