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The metayage system is the cultivation of land for a proprietor by one who receives a proportion of the produce, as a kind of sharecropping. Another class...

coupled with a lack of money to pay labourers, Tobago planters resorted to metayage, a form of sharecropping, which remained the dominant mode of production...

system. Some are governed by tradition, and others by law. The French métayage, the Catalan masoveria, the Castilian mediero, the Slavic połownictwo and...

19th-century) is one of many implementations of sharefarming; another, known as métayage or mezzadria, was, and remains, practiced in southern France, in Italy...

share of the produce, a practice also known as sharecropping (in French, métayage). In the 1760s many of the original French farmers were tenants; after...

domaine began working several new parcels under a type of agreement known as metayage—plots in Chambolle-Musigny, Chambertin, and Latricières-Chambertin. Their...

landowners). The most common form of labor exploitation – the system of metayage – was typical for the afore-mentioned categories of landowners. Their household...

unable to keep any job for a long time and moved to Paliano to work as a métayage. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he attended school until the second...

order of Ivan the Terrible, the monastery became a collection facility for metayage, quitrent, and fodder. In 1584, the tsar donated a substantial amount of...

crop failing, an early advocacy of crop rotation. It also recommended métayage (sharecropping) so that cash tenants would take all the risks and thus...

Peasant#Latin American farmers. Land reform by country Peasant Serfdom Metayage system of sharecropping Plain Folk of the Old South, 1949 book, about U...

viticulturists of the Middle Ages. Around this time, an early system of Metayage emerged in France with laborers (Prendeur) working the vineyards under...

Middle Age sharecropping system known as complant — a precursor to the métayage system. Under this system, a laborer known as a prendeur would agree to...

by region. Thus Carlo Bacetti compared, in Tuscany, the importance of metayage in the organization of work on the land, and the weight of the Communist...

the protection of tenant rights. A Socialist law of 1946 replaced the metayage system with a tenancy statute (statut de fermage) that provided greater...

following sources: Francis Dupuy, Le pin de la discorde: Les rapports de métayage dans la Grande Lande, Paris, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1996 François...

social, economic, and productive implications of the mezzadria (called metayage in English): first of all it had to exist, from the economic point of view...

Middle Age sharecropping system known as complant, a precursor to the métayage system. Under this system, the prendeur would cultivate land owned by a...

their lands by his death. His own tenants paid rent in kind under the metayage system, known in Ireland as "cuttings and spendings", delivering him about...

Constantine Mavrocordatos. He argued that, whereas feudalism was supported by metayage, legislation passed by Mavrocordatos had endorsed and prolonged corvées...