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Home-based businesses

Here are entered works on self-employed persons producing and marketing goods or services in their homes. Works on industries carried on by persons and their families in rural areas producing goods at home for an outside employer are entered under Cottage industries. Works on persons in urban areas producing goods at home for an outside employer are entered under Home labor.

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• A Small Business of Your Own, Including 1000 Spare Time Money Making Ideas (1937), by William Allan Brooks (HTML at Wayback Machine)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Farewell to the Self-Employed: Deconstructing a Socioeconomic and Legal Solipsism (New York et al.: Greenwood Press, c1992), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• Transaction Based Economics: What Small Business Experience Teaches About Economic Theory (third edition, 1986), by Michael Phillips (HTML at well.com)
• Go It Alone: The Secret to Building a Successful Business On Your Own (2004), by Bruce Judson (HTML with commentary at brucejudson.com)
• A Small Business of Your Own, Including 1000 Spare Time Money Making Ideas (1937), by William Allan Brooks (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Pricing Decisions in Small Business (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1962), by W. Warren Haynes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gov. Altgeld's Pardon; and The Modern Tragedy, Downfall of the Small Producer; and The Crisis, Its Cause and Cure As Explained and Proposed by Socialism (New York: New York Labor News Co., 1894), contrib. by John Peter Altgeld, Karl Kautsky, and Karl Ibsen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Corporate Governance and Enterprise Reform in China: Building the Institutions of Modern Markets (Washington: World Bank and International Finance Corporation, 2002), by Stoyan Tenev, Chunlin Zhang, and Loup Berfort (PDF at worldbank.org)

• The Growth Company Guide to Investors, Deal Structures, and Legal Strategies, by Clinton Richardson (HTML at growco.com)

• Financing State and Local Economic Development (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1983), ed. by Michael Barker, contrib. by Robert N. Wise, Belden Hull Daniels, Lawrence Litvak, Michael Kieschnick, and Derek Hansen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Learning to Change: Opportunities to Improve the Performance of Smaller Manufacturers (1993), by National Research Council Manufacturing Studies Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Growth Company Guide to Investors, Deal Structures, and Legal Strategies, by Clinton Richardson (HTML at growco.com)

• The Little Red Shop (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., c1889), by Margaret Sidney (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Private Rights and Government Control: Address Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association, Held at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., September 4, 1917 (Washington: GPO, 1917), by George Sutherland
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Small Business Management in the 21st Century (c2012), by David Cadden and Sandra L. Lueder (HTML and PDF with commentary at umn.edu)
• The Flexible Enterprise (electronic edition, c2010), by David Gewirtz (PDF at wordpress.com)

• Digital Economies at Global Margins (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press; Ottawa et al.: International Development Research Centre, c2019), ed. by Mark Graham (PDF at idrc.ca)
• Information and Telecommunication Technologies: The Impact of Their Adoption on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (1996), by Elisabeth Lefebvre and Louis A. Lefebvre (PDF with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Learning to Change: Opportunities to Improve the Performance of Smaller Manufacturers (1993), by National Research Council Manufacturing Studies Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Women Business Owners: Selling to the Federal Government (1995), by United States Small Business Administration (text at empowermentzone.com)
• Breaking Into the Trade Game: A Small Business Guide to Exporting, by United States Small Business Administration (HTML at sba.gov)

• The Underground Economy (originally published 1984; this edition c2003), by Hans F. Sennholz (PDF with commentary at mises.org)

• The Underground Economy: Global Evidence of Its Size and Impact (Vancouver: Fraser Institute, c1997), ed. by Owen Lippert and Michael Walker (PDF files with commentary at Fraser Institute)

• The Underground Economy: Global Evidence of Its Size and Impact (Vancouver: Fraser Institute, c1997), ed. by Owen Lippert and Michael Walker (PDF files with commentary at Fraser Institute)