A01=T. J. Byres
Agrarian Capitalism
agrarian relations theory
agreements
alternative
Ancient Greece
appropriation
arrangements
Author_T. J. Byres
Capital III
Category=GTP
contract
contracts
Cooper's Paper
Cooper’s Paper
employment
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Fixed Rent Contracts
Fixed Rent Tenancies
Formal Subsumption
Gang Labour
historical tenancy systems
Individual Country Studies
Labour Force Requirements
Labour Process
Labour Rents
land reform policy
Landlord's Share
landlords
Landlord’s Share
Marxist analysis of rural contracts
Mechanical Picker
peasant class analysis
Plantation Agriculture
Plantation Economy
political economy rural
Real Subsumption
rental
Rental Share
rural labour dynamics
Sequential Uncertainty
Share Contracts
Sharecropping Contract
surplus
Surplus Appropriation
Surplus Labour Appropriation
Tamil Nadu
West Godavari District
Product details
- ISBN 9780714632230
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jul 1983
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 frequently in land reform programmes as a candidate for elimination. Yet it persists, often in disguised form. It raises difficult theoretical issues, which have attracted the attention of some of the outstanding economists—from Adam Smith, through John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, and Alfred Marshall—and which remain contentious. Sharecroppers, moreover, have sometimes been involved in important political movements in the countryside. This, too, has given rise to considerable debate. In this double special number of the Journal of Peasant Studies, these varied issues are given extensive and rigorous treatment within a predominantly political economy framework. Sharecropping and sharecroppers are examined both in general terms, in a number of theoretical contributions, and in a rich variety of regional contexts, in which their specific manifestations emerge.
