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Agro-town
An agro-town is an agglomeration located in a rural environment with a population sometimes several thousands-strong but whose workforce's main occupation is agriculture. The agro-town also lacks the administrative, commercial and industrial functions which are usually common in the centers of such size. This type of agglomeration is particularly present around the Mediterranean Sea, in West Africa and in the Americas.
==Structure==
The population of agro-towns are commonly very poor, most workers do not own the land and are employed seasonally as wage labour. This also explains why these populations are often very fluctuent with a large immigration during harvest and a significant emigration during the low season or in case of crises. The concentration of the land into the hands of a small elite of often absentee landlords commonly leads to tensions within the towns leading in the 20th century to a prevalence of the communist vote in many agro-towns on Mediterranean Europe.
Large landlords are typically absent and leave the management of their estate to some agents who seldom lives in the town but rather in large and prosperous farmhouses in the countryside (known as masia). On the other hand, landless wage labourer often had to travel large distances to reach the location of their employer. Despite the relative plenty of labour, the surrounding exploitations tend to concentrate in non-labour intensive cultures due to the supervision issue that arise with large labour forces. Consequently latifundia tend to specialize in capital-intensive cash crops which often require the edification of large specialized buildings such as windmills or oil presses.
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