landlordism

From landlord +‎ -ism.

landlordism (usually uncountable, plural landlordisms)

1. An economic system under which a few private individuals (landlords) own property, and rent it to tenants.
   • 1908 February 19, Jack London, The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:

     What if all the poor people should refuse to pay rent and shelter themselves under the American flag? Landlordism would go crumbling.

2. 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.

3. The actions and behavior of a landlord.
   • 2014, John Mullan, What Matters in Jane Austen?, page 196:

     Yet his account also implies the carelessness of his landlordism before now and the invisibility to him of those beneath his social horizon (even if they are paying him rent).

• capitalism, socialism, communism