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Book chapter |
| Title: | Sharecropping in Malawi: the visiting tenant system in the Central Province, c. 1920-1968 |
| Author: | MacCracken, John |
| Book title: | Malawi: an alternative pattern of development |
| Year: | 1985 |
| Pages: | 33-65 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Malawi |
| Subject: | tenancy |
| Abstract: | In Central Malawi, sharecropping proved to be remarkably tenacious and adaptive, surviving not only the Depression and the increased attention given to smallholder agriculture by the colonial government in the 1950s, but also the frontal assault that was launched against the system by nationalist politicians in the 1960s. - Notes, tab. |