Is There Still Sharecropping?

Sharecropping as you're thinking of it likely doesn't exist on any scale. However, it isn't uncommon to have agreements that maintain some similarities.

What ended sharecropping?

After the Civil War, former slaves sought jobs, and planters sought laborers. The absence of cash or an independent credit system led to the creation of sharecropping. ... The Great Depression, mechanization, and other factors lead sharecropping to fade away in the 1940s.

What is modern day sharecropping?

Sharecropping is a legal arrangement with regard to agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.