landlordism
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
landlordism (usually uncountable, plural landlordisms)
- An economic system under which a few private individuals (landlords) own property, and rent it to tenants.
- 1908, Jack London, The Iron Heel[1], New York: The Macmillan Company:
- What if all the poor people should refuse to pay rent and shelter themselves under the American flag? Landlordism would go crumbling.
- A specific variation or implementation of such a system.
- Reclaiming the land: the resurgence of rural movements in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, edited by Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros, page 33:
- […] including the racialized landlordisms to which it gives rise.
- Reclaiming the land: the resurgence of rural movements in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, edited by Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros, page 33: