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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"sharecropping"”.
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Black Folk /White Bondage: Race, *Class and the Literature of Sharecropping, 1925--1942
"This dissertation examines sharecropping in American literature and culture from the First World War to the Second as a site of shifting fields of race and class. While the Southern literary ""renaissance"" is frequently credited with debunking post-Civil War ""plantation literature's"" …
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Economic analysis of peasant family farms: Agricultural intensification, cost-accounting, and sharecropping in Andean peasant communities
This research is motivated by the conditions under which an agricultural surplus can be produced and sustained in nations (LDC's) that are characterized, grosso modo, by a static agricultural technology and rapid growth in demand for agricultural products. Even though peasant family farms comprise …
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"Against My Destiny": Reading an Italian Immigrant's Memoir in the Early 20th-century South
… elite narratives that express nostalgia for sharecropping and the segregation era. I see his narrative as a reflection upon the costs of integrating into the white patriarchal economy and his sense of being neither fully Italian nor fully American.</p>
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Shariah: An efficiency analysis
… We illustrate using Stiglitz and Cheung's sharecropping models that a profit and loss sharing contract can be as efficient as its alternatives (or more so), so there is no implicit tax on lenders who prefer a share of profit rather than a fixed return on a loan. The growth in Islamic …
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"We cleared the land with our own hands": space and place in African American community building and freedom struggles in the Missouri Bootheel, 1890-1968"
… and 1920s, the New Deal, and the transition from sharecropping to day labor from the 1930s through the 1950s.
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Three Essays on Groundwater and Tenancy Contracts in Rural Economies
… econometric analysis shows that the choice of a sharecropping contract leads to lower input intensities on a tenant's sharecropped plots than on his owned plots. This result remains valid if one controls for factors such as different irrigation status and different crop choice, and even if one …
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Agricultural tenancy and contracts: an economic analysis of the strange farmer system in the Gambia
… as contrasted with wage, fixed-rent, and sharecropping, is presented; and emphasis is placed on the "strangeness" of the strange farmers (the fact that they are non-residents of their farming areas) as the distinguishing feature of the contract. Our analysis considers how environmental and …
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Owning Home: African-American Agriculture In Lower Richland County, South Carolina, 1868-1890
… of rural African-Americans waits to be told. Sharecropping and tenant farming were bleak realities for many black farmers in the postbellum South, but the efforts of a government land commission and the determination of Lower Richland farmers themselves converged to offer glimmers of economic …
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Work relations and forms of production in New Zealand agriculture
… of simple commodity production to include sharecropping. It is argued that non-ownership of the farm is the only criteria by which sharecroppers can be excluded from being classified as simple commodity producers, and this is less important than the ownership of the share contract. Apple …
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Local traders and agricultural development in Dongola area: a study in rural capitalism from Northern Sudan
… of today as seen in the different forms of sharecropping practised in the area. A possible determinant cause was sought in the activities of local entrepreneurs especially traders whose activities have had an important role in the agricultural developments and the economy of the area. The …
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Black Feminist Poiesis: Locating “The Uses of the Erotic” Within Black Domesticity
<p>What does being human mean for women who were artists denied the ability to live life on their own standards? What did it mean to live a creative life when your body was captured and held within a system that surveilled and penalized you for things like writing, reading, or the idea of creating …