Cottage industries and small businesses
Most Caribbean businesses are small: a seamstress, a corner shop, a home bakery. The smallest, run from home with family help, are cottage industries. Paper 1 asks which business is a cottage industry in most years.
By the end of this page you can
- Describe the features of a cottage industry
- Outline what small businesses do for an economy
- Weigh the advantages and disadvantages of small business
- Spot a cottage industry in a list of businesses
Goals tick themselves off as you try the activities below.
Photo: Maina Pat Mbae, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped, the machine’s brand blurred, resized, JPEG q72.
One owner, one machine, customers she knows by name: a typical small business.
How often it shows up in past papers
All papers15 of 23 papers
Last 55 of 5 · 2023–2026
Paper 1 counts come from our past-paper bank of CSEC Principles of Business Paper 1s. The last-5 row shows how often it came up in the five most recent papers.
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