sharecropper
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.

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thrash
U-pick
unharvested
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Examples of sharecropping

sharecropping
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.
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