{"id":4892,"date":"2022-03-28T15:52:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T19:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/?p=4892"},"modified":"2022-03-28T16:36:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T20:36:25","slug":"sharecropping-and-the-capitalist-transition-in-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/2022\/03\/28\/sharecropping-and-the-capitalist-transition-in-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharecropping and the Capitalist Transition in Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Sharecropping has been the subject of much debate among economists concerned with static efficiency and, to some extent, with equity. This paper shifts the focus to the dynamics of structural change. The research reported adds to the discussion a detailed account of a large number of sharecropping contracts and why they vary, and offers a theory of the relationship between sharecropping as practised in the Ecuadorian province of Carchi and a particular pattern of structural change which is described as the transition to an agrarian structure dominated by capitalised family farms. The prevalent use of wage labour on sharecropped land, and the place of sharecropping in in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pexels-pat-whelen-6026441-877x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4893\" width=\"658\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pexels-pat-whelen-6026441-877x1024.jpg 877w, https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pexels-pat-whelen-6026441-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pexels-pat-whelen-6026441-768x896.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pexels-pat-whelen-6026441-370x432.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pexels-pat-whelen-6026441-760x887.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pexels-pat-whelen-6026441.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/adlehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Sharecropping-in-Ecuador.pdf noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharecropping has been the subject of much debate among economists concerned with static efficiency and, to some extent, with equity. This paper shifts the focus to the dynamics of structural change. The research reported adds to the discussion a detailed account of a large number of sharecropping contracts and why they vary, and offers a theory of the relationship between sharecropping as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","category-published-papers"],"wbAuthor":{"name":"adlehmann","link":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/author\/adlehmann\/"},"wbDate":"Mar 28, 2022","wbCategories":{"space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/category\/publications\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Publications<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/category\/publications\/published-papers\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Published Papers<\/a>","coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/category\/publications\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Publications<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/category\/publications\/published-papers\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Published Papers<\/a>"},"wbComment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4911,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions\/4911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}