tiểu sản xuất

Một hộ gia đình nhỏ làm tiểu sản xuất mứt dâu trong bếp.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • Petty production: A small-scale economic system where producers own their means of production (like simple tools or a small workshop) and primarily work themselves, possibly with limited family help, to create goods for their own use or for local exchange. It is characteristic of pre-capitalist economies.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Nền kinh tế nông thôn trước đây chủ yếu dựa vào tiểu sản xuất. (The rural economy of the past was mainly based on petty production.)
  • Tiểu sản xuất thường gắn liền với nghề thủ công. (Petty production is often associated with handicrafts.)

Advanced Usage

• In economic theory, "tiểu sản xuất" is often contrasted with large-scale industrial or capitalist production. It is seen as a form that typically does not generate significant surplus for capital accumulation.

Variants and Related Words

• Sản xuất nhỏ: Another common Vietnamese term with the same meaning as "tiểu sản xuất" (small-scale production).
• Kinh tế tiểu nông: Petty peasant economy (a specific form of petty production in agriculture).

Synonyms

• Small-scale production
• Petty commodity production (a more specific Marxist economic term)

Related Concepts

• Tư liệu sản xuất: Means of production.
• Sản xuất hàng hóa: Commodity production.