Agrarian settlers met cost-sharing requirements through labor rather than cash.

Evidence

Communities were required to provide 10% of the project cost, which could either be contributed in labor or in money. All settlements in my sample contributed labor to the initial construction of the project, often working alongside the technicians. — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 34

Categorization

• XREF: Labor-as-capital contribution resonates with midwife-era barter/kin-labor economies and with commoning literature on time-banking and sweat equity as community building.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 34