Unlike commercial industries, which tend to be large in scale, cottage industries tend to be small in scale. Cottage industries are often based out of a single home, and they may have only one or two employees. In cottage industries, a worker often makes a product from start to finish. Examples of cottage industries include homemade textiles and jewelry.
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