Cottage Industry

Cottage Industry - a cottage industry is a term to describe a usually small scale business.  A cottage industry company may be a mom and pop operation (family run) at home, and using their own equipment...  A hand crafted business or small service business normally at home is as example of a cottage industry business...  The cottage industries prevailed in the 17th and 18th century for the most part, before the industrial revolution.  Today there are still  cottage industry business , such as sewing, accounting and bookkeeping, and small repair shops to name a few.