COTTAGE INDUSTRIES (IN YUGOSLAVIA)
COTTAGE INDUSTRIES (IN YUGOSLAVIA)

Summary/Abstract: Throughout the postwar period cottage industries have developed in Yugoslavia without their place and status being legaly defined, without any determined line of policy, and with no efforts being made to make use of the possibilities of this sector of economic activity. All that has been done so far has been confined to attempts to formulate a precise definition of what such industries are, or rather, to draw a border line between cottage industries, handicrafts and small-scale industries by drafting a kind of nomenclature concerning their activities. Such attempts, however, have turned out to be largely impossible since the same kinds of articles are manufactured by industry proper, crafts and cottage industries. There have also been attempts to confine cottage industries to products of a markedly folklore character, which is not in line with the present development of these activities in the broader sense of the word, even though this is exactly what most cottage industries produce.

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