A. SHARECROPPING IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: A GENERAL TREATMENT; Historical Perspectives on Sharecropping; B. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SHARECROPPING Sharecropping: Towards a Marxist View; Classical Theory of Rent and Its Application to India: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Sharecropping; Cropsharing as a Labour Process; Sharecropping: Some Illustrations; Sharecropping as an Efficient System: Further Answers to an Old Puzzle; C. CONCRETE ANALYSIS OF SHARECROPPING: INDIVIDUAL COUNTRY STUDIES Sharecropping and the Plantation Economy in the United States South; The Cycle of Sharecropping and the Consolidation of Small Peasant Ownership in Turkey; Tuscan Sharecropping in United Italy: The Myth of Class Collaboration Destroyed; The Introduction of Free Labour on Sao Paulo Coffee Plantations; The Sharecropping Economy on the South African Highveld in the Early Twentieth Century; Sharecroppers and Landlords in Bengal, 1930–50: The Dependency Web and its Implications; The Major Mode of Surplus Labour Appropriation in the West Malaysian Countryside: The Sharecropping System