Resumen

TOGNETTI, Luis A.. The Spread of Sharecropping Practices during the Wheat Expansion Period in an Area of the Pampas Region in Argentina. Marcos Juarez 1885-1905. Am. Lat. Hist. Econ [online]. 2017, vol.24, n.3, pp.71-104. ISSN 2007-3496.  https://doi.org/10.18232/alhe.v24i3.772.

This paper aims to explain the generalized use of sharecropping practices to expand the frontiers of wheat production in the Pampas region. Such practices resulted from the combined interests of landowners and tenants –a different perspective from that based only on property ownership. The main hypothesis is that sharecropping appeared to be a more convenient method for both parties to solve the problems of working virgin lands. On the one hand, landowners could obtain benefits without incurring in the high costs associated with workers’ salaries or running the risks and limitations of fixed- rent leases. On the other hand, tenants could safeguard their participation in land improvement in a period of harsh variations in wheat production.

Palabras llave : agricultural land; sharecropping; fixed-rent lease.