Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 162)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 162)

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but her/his labour power in return for an income at the end
of the agricultural season. Only the poorest sharecroppers
would willingly undertake such a disadvantageous contract.
The third is the contract, which again accounts for only 4%
of all share-contracts, where:
(a) the landlord provides only land;
(b) the sharecropper provides all other inputs. On the basis
of this contract the landlord receives 15%, and the tenant
85%, of the net sale price of the crop yield. This contract
is the most rewarding form of share-contract from the point
of view of the sharecropper. However, it is not widespread.
Thus, we can detect a general tendency toward the almost
universal establishment of the 50:50 share contract.
The formal legal contract - even if not established through
due legal process - is’ the important characteristic in
specifying the particular method of surplus appropriation of
the agricultural product, i.e. of specifying the form of
exploitation. This contract has two aspects which need to be
brought out. First, persons undertaking a sharecropping
compact do so freely. The sharecropper is formally free to
undertake, or not to undertake, cropping as a form of
employment. There is no legal or political power forcing the
sharecropper to contract; this is not forced labour. Second,
in order for sharecropping to exist it is a necessary but not
sufficient condition that there be commodity markets. The
contract requires the development of extended or restricted
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