Cottage industry

Jolly, D. (2000) From cottage industry to conglomerates The transformation of the US organic foods industry. Proceedings of the 13th International IFOAM Scientific Conference, Basel, Switzerland, pp 511-12. 

With the advent of monoclonal antibodies, the search for tumour-specific antigens became the biggest cottage industry since unemployment. It rapidly became apparent that a 90 kD disulfide-bridged transmembrane protein was present in many tumour cells - it was the transferrin receptor, and as they say, the rest is history. It has become a standard procedure to determine the in vivo growth potential of tumours by measuring transferrin receptor expression. 

But alternatives exist. A cottage industry for reform has emerged in recent decades to provide a menu of antilawn options for urban residents. Do these practices represent real alternatives Are they realistic under the current legal regime Or do alternatives simply reinstitute the position of lawn people as the lonely adjudicators of a larger socioeconomic machine ... 

Cheroots are rolls made from tobacco leaves, while chuttas are a type of cheroot made at home or in cottage industry 9% of the tobacco produced in India is used to make chuttas. About three billion chutta sticks are made annually in India. Chutta smoking is popular in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Orissa. 

In South Africa traditional or home-made products are more commonly used in rural areas while products manufactured by small cottage industries are dominant in urban areas. One of the small smokeless industries was bought by Swedish Match in 1999 and they ve continued to manufacture the same products used for both oral and nasal application. Unlike many other countries, nasal use predominates among the 13.2% of black women in South Africa who use smokeless tobacco, 80% nasally and 20% orally. Overall usage is approximately 10%, but reaches 18.6% among black children (Ayo-Yusuf et al. 2004). Only about 1% of South African men use snuff (Ayo-Yusuf et al. 2008). 

Moreover, it might also be possible to hypothesize a form of alchemical practice related to a family-run business, not as profit-making, but perhaps as a form of resistance to primitive accumulation, understood as the (ruthless) movement to force workers into factories and wage-earning trades, leaving behind barter systems, cottage industries, or subsistence farming. Alchemy could, in this utopian fiction, be carried out in the commons, as... 

This approach has proved to be so successful that it has spawned a cottage industry of carrier designs based on the use of hydrostatic pressure. With some of these inventions a backing plate is present, with others [32]... 

NPV production in a susceptible host insect is a relatively simple process, suitable for development at the industrial scale or at the "cottage industry" level. There are several particularly attractive small-scale production processes in modest facilities a good example is a production process for the NPV of the cabbage looper, Trlchoplusla ni, with an output of... 

The production of baculoviruses is technically and economically feasible in living host organisms, at the commercial plant level or as a modest "cottage industry." The cost of commercial production of some viral insecticides is still relatively high, but a Baculovlrus production venture could become financially attractive if appropriate government agencies would share research and development costs with the industry. 

Today s meth (crystal, crank, speed) is as addictive as crack, with highs that can last as long as eight hours. Users tend to be white, blue-collar males. Meth production is believed to be one of the fastest-growing cottage industries in the Midwest. 

The real breakthrough in soap production was made in 1780 by a French chemist and physician, Nicolas Leblanc, who invented the process of obtaining soda (sodium carbonate, Na2C03) from common salt (the Leblanc process), and increased the availability of this alkali at a reasonable cost. With the development of power to operate factories, soapmaking grew from a cottage industry into a commercial venture and became one of the fastest-growing industries of the modern era. Body soap, which had been a luxury item affordable by royalty and the very rich, became a household item of ordinary folks as well. 

The natural dyes industry was more than just a cottage industry in Colonial America. Indigo was a very important cash crop in South Carolina among the coastal islands and for some distance inland. Plantations existed well into the early 1900s despite the growth of the synthetic dyestuff industry. 

We offered the cassette for sale by mail-order, expecting to sell around 50 copies. Instead it became almost a cottage industry with nearly 2000 copies being sold the first Christmas to purchasers in 60 different countries. Even now, so many years later, I still receive one or two orders a week, frequently on photocopies of ancient order forms. 

The practice of pharmaceutical care was developed by using the rules governing all other health care practices. Although pharmacists have the ability to address drug therapy problems better than other health care professionals do, it might be necessary to create a new health care professional for the practice of pharmaceutical care to expand beyond the current cottage industry of selected pharmacy locations. The issue of creating a new health care professional would have profound implications on the mission and direction of pharmacy education. 

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