Cottage industries comprise a sub-group of informal sector income generation activities which are conducted in the home environment and organized around families or households. Cottage industry workers may be at risk of exposure to harmful substances associated with their work, and given the lack of separation of cottage industry activities from living spaces, their families and neighbors may s...

The most important factor for economic development of a country is its industrialization. In the process of industrialization, emphasis is given to the three major groups of industries; large-scale industries, small-scale industries and cottage industries. We propose to study in this paper the problems and prospects of small-scale and cottage industries in Uttar Pradesh, where large and medium ...

The commodities that are being produced by cottage industries are basically consumable ones and are produced through the utilization of the traditional techniques. Cottage Industry especially started its function in the country sides of a country where unemployment along with under-employment are prevalent. Thus, this industry helps the economy by absorbing a huge amount of surplus labor of the...

M C S THE definit ion of the different sectors of the indus t r ia l structure of an economy has to be baaed on a p ragmat ic appraisal of the preva i l ing conditions, w i t h due al lowance for adjustments and var ia t ions . if it is to be economical ly meaningful . Such an approach is needed a l l the more in the context of a g r o w i n g economy, fast developing as a result of conscious a...

The work place injuries have to pay both direct and indirect cost of the accidents. With a population of 169 million, Pakistan has no reported estimate of the national impact of workplace injuries. This study presented a profile of workplace injuries associated with small medium enterprises of metal press cottage industries in Shahdra Town, Lahore (Pakistan) and determined the impact on the cou...

Among many agrobased cottage industries in India sericulture has been promoted as an agro-based, labor intensive, rural oriented cottage industry, providing gainful employment mainly to the weaker and marginalized section of the society specially tribal. Sericulture occupies the place of pride in the rural economy can be practiced even with very low land holding, low gestation, high returns mak...