tenant farming
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Besides their tenant farming, her parents ran a boardinghouse in Oceanside, Calif., which they were forced to abandon when their interment began.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2018
The male head enjoyed the most liberty, but an adequate farm also freed his wife and children from the poverty and servility of tenant farming or wage labor.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
The Great Depression had ended my father’s tenant farming.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2017
Absentee land ownership and tenant farming perpetuated the ruinous one-crop system and discouraged the diversification of agriculture which the South needs to save its soil and feed its own people.
From Time Magazine Archive
Otherwise tenant farming will continue to increase and a rural peasantry finally develop on the land, with absentee landlords living in comfort in the more normal social conditions of the villages and towns.
From The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity by George Walter Fiske
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