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
This is the strenuous, upward year after they have climbed the rung from migratory labor to tenant farming.
From Time Magazine Archive
The evils of tenant farming, as illustrated by the experiences of a farmer's wife in moving during the very early spring, were vividly depicted in an article in Farm and Fireside.
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