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The economics of sharecropping are one step above those of slave holding; neither are advantageous.  Which is why both were phased-out.

Them Who Hath figured-out there was more profit in lending money to ag producers than having anything "real" to do with crop production.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Sun Jun 6th, 2010 at 03:48:04 PM EST
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Phased out? No.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Sun Jun 6th, 2010 at 03:58:25 PM EST
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Sharecropping only came to an end in the middle of the 20th century. From about 1915 onward African Americans in the South were able to find work in the industrial North that paid better and provided more freedoms than in the South. That began to produce a labor shortage in the South, which along with innovations and federal agricultural policy in the 1930s, fueled mechanization that made the remaining sharecroppers redundant.

The key was the availability of industrial work at decent wages. If we lose what's left of that, any newer feudalistic system could be difficult to escape.

And the world will live as one

by Montereyan (robert at calitics dot com) on Sun Jun 6th, 2010 at 05:41:15 PM EST
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In light of the diminution of manufacturing and promotion of proprietary, automated industrial technologies, for example, Monsanto's business model, which the corporation executes worldwide,  is it accurate to state that sharecropping came to an end in the middle of the 20th century?

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Mon Jun 7th, 2010 at 11:12:27 AM EST
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