The Paradox of Share Tenancy under Capitalism: A Comparative Perspective on Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French and Italian Sharecropping

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1474-0656|3|2|191-217

ISSN: 0956-7933

Source: Rural History, Vol.3, Iss.2, 1992-10, pp. : 191-217

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Abstract

As a tenurial solution, sharecropping has been a source of constant fascination and controversy for centuries. It is as old as written history. Furthermore, it has existed and to a certain extent still exists, in very different institutional frameworks, and it constitutes one of the most common tenurial solutions in the history of agriculture.