share-cropping

In 1954, after her second husband had died and her sons were old enough to till the land, the landowner leased them fields nearby for share-cropping and built them a home.

Meanwhile, ecological pressure from the plant’s intensive cultivation ruined soils, contributing to an unjust economic model based on tenancy and share-cropping.

When the government provided food ration cards to impoverished families in the area in 2002, the landless, share-cropping family of Gita Devi and Tulsi Manjhi surely should have qualified.

This machine and its successors completely transformed the cotton farming industry and led to the destruction of the share-cropping system.

Obviously, if this case is indicative, and there were others, share-cropping did not induce attitudes of subservience.