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‘Exploitation’ in Rural Central Italy: Structure and Ideology in Stratification Study1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Sydel F. Silverman
Affiliation:
Queens College, City University of New York

Extract

The agricultural organization that has long characterized the Central Italian hills, the mezzadria system of share-farming, is today ‘in crisis’. Overtly, the crisis is manifested in an increasing antagonism between landlords and peasants, large-scale withdrawal of peasants from the system, and political agitation directed towards it.

Type
Italian Peasant Problems
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1970

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