sharecropping
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12 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Application by region
- Africa
- Scotland
- United States
- Sharecropping and socioeconomic status
- Impacts
- Economic theories of share tenancy
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|A Farm Security Administration photo of a cropper family chopping the weeds from cotton near White Plains, in Georgia, US (1941)
Sharecropping is a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant (sharecropper) to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land. Sharecropping is different from tenant farming, which provides the tenant greater autonomy, and higher economic and social status.