Sharecropping system and labor market in the Dona Francisca colonynew evidences on european colonization in southern Brazil in the transition from slavery, 1851-1876

Resumo

This article examines the labor market in the Dona Francisca colony, one of the most important centers of European colonization from Brazil in the nineteenth century. The analyse has shown new evidences about the use of immigrant labor force during the transition of slavery in Brazil. Specially, the article has revealed the use of sharecropping system like a way of free work in the settlement of small owners Dona Francisca, in South of Brazil. Besides this one, this study shows that, this study shows that despite the high land-labor ratio and the fact that the Dona Francisca settlers were small landowners, the majority of stablished immigrants worked on paid activities which were parallel to the agriculture, dedicating themselves only and partially to it in their properties. Thus, the evidence presented in this article suggests that the labor market in the Dona Francisca colony had been one exception in relation to formulated Evsey Domar`s hypothesis, in known published article from 1970.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2024

Instituição

Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Economia, Administração, Contabilidade e Atuária

Fonte

Estudos Econômicos

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

DOI

10.1590/1980-53575414lmsf

Identificador

oai:revistas.usp.br:article/210395

Licença

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Palavras-chave

Sistema de parceriaImigração europeiaColônia Dona FranciscaBrasilSéculo XIXSharecropping systemEuropean immigrationDona Francisca colonyBrazilNineteenth century