cottage industries
Small-scale home production
Cottage industries are small-scale manufacturing done at home rather than in factories, originally referring to work like weaving or lacemaking performed in rural cottages.
The term now applies figuratively to any small, informal sector of production: Celebrity gossip has become a cottage industry.
The singular cottage industry is more common than the plural.
- small businessesIndependently owned, limited-scale companies
- mom and popInformal term for parents
- craftsHandmade artistic works
- family businessesEnterprises owned by relatives
- weavingInterlacing strands into fabric
outwork · wool · traditional crafts · handcraft · piecework · artisan · yarn · housecraft · embroidery · pre-industrial · domestic production · kitchen table · side hustle · loom · heritage crafts · spinning wheels · cooperatives · workshop
- travel charmrustic charm, cobblestone streets, scenic beauty, hidden gems, small town feel
- guildsguild hall, guild, craft guilds, guild halls, guildhall
- labor historyAFL-CIO, workers, labor movement, CIO, laborers
- regional industriesforestry, lumber, dairy farming, Napa wine, fishing
cottage industriesmass production
Large-scale standardized fabrication
factory production · industrial manufacturing · heavy industry · big business · industrial complexes
cottage industriesfactory system
Centralized mechanized production method
manufacturing facilities · corporate headquarters · assembly plants · sweatshops · industrial parks
cottage industriesindustrial automation
Machine-controlled production systems
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