sharecropping
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sharecropping” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.