Otrabotka System - Otrabotka System

…There are many different forms of contract farming, including bringing farm tools and livestock (in this case, remuneration is based on the contracted area) and simple day labor, but one well-known example is the “otrabotka” system, where the worker is contracted to do all the work from plowing to harvesting on an allotted plot of land on a landowner’s directly managed farm that is twice the size of the rented land, and the remuneration is used to pay the rent. This is similar to feudal corvée (labor rent), and it was seen as a typical example of the otrabotka system, and Lenin said that the “otrabotka system is a direct relic of the corvée economy,” but this view is one-sided. “otrabotka” is merely a form of offsetting high rents and low labor remuneration, which was based on the widespread prevalence of these two in rural areas during the establishment of Russian capitalist society after the emancipation of the serfs. …

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…農具･役畜持参の請負耕作(この場合報酬は請負面積当り)や単なる日雇いなど形態は多種多様だが，借地した面積の2倍の広さの地主直営農場内割当地で耕起から収穫までの全作業請負を行ってその労働報酬を借地料支払いにあてるという〈オトラボトカ借地〉も有名である。これは外見上封建的賦役(労働地代)に似ており，これをオトラボトカ･システムの典型とみて，〈オトラボトカ･システムは賦役経済の直接の遺物〉(レーニン)といわれたが，この考えは一面的である。〈オトラボトカ借地〉は，農奴解放後のロシア資本主義社会成立期農村での高借地料と低労働報酬の広範な普及を前提とするその両者の相殺形態であるにすぎないからである。…

※「オトラボトカ・システム」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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