sharecropper

You are talking about something you refer to as the sharecropper society and economy.

CNN Transcript May 4, 2005 2005

The sharecropper is a straw man, an intermediary, usually a middle-aged farm worker, to whom the grower shifts many of the legal and financial risks.

In the Strawberry Fields 1995

In order to demonstrate that the sharecropper is not an employee of Kirk's, the contracts stress that "no partnership, joint venture, co-farming, tenant farming, or other business relationship" has been created.

In the Strawberry Fields 1995

What Warren Buffett is referring to as a sharecropper economy is here, isn't it?

CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2005 2005

A sharecropper is a tenant farmer who is-the system is this: Sharecropper is the -- is the successor system to slavery in the South, basically.

The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it Changed America 1991

Until then me and Warren and George will continue to warn about the "sharecropper" society.

Up, up, and away... Mumon 2005

Nick Carr, author of The Big Switch, who has been the most eloquent in articulating the "sharecropper" concern, which Lanier now extends with his "lords of the computing clouds" notion.

Freedom Foundation Blog Adam Thierer 2010

Nick Carr, author of The Big Switch, who has been the most eloquent in articulating the "sharecropper" concern, which Lanier now extends with his "lords of the computing clouds" notion.

Technology Liberation Front Adam Thierer 2010

Menagh points to Kipp Nash, a school-bus driver and self-described "sharecropper" in Boulder who farms about a dozen other people's yards.

Cornucopia Institute 2008

"furnish-hand" (more often called a sharecropper) is dependent on the owner for equipment, seed, food -- everything -- and pays one half his crop.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3 1977