ABSTRACT
The analysis of small enterprises in the context of the household requires substantial amounts of data, much of which can be collected only by relatively detailed record-keeping and intrusive approaches that include time allocation for each member of the family plus detailed tracking of financial flows within the household. Small farms are, in fact, small enterprises, that operate in a subsector context that often involve dealing with other firms engaged in input supply as well as the transformation, transport, trading and/or storage of products grown on the farm. Small enterprises frequently operate in the interstices of that market, competing on the output side with products of larger firms covered by various government regulations at the same time that the enterprise operated on the input side on the fringes of those labour regulations. Ian Livingstone was particularly cognizant of the labour market, and took that perspective in many of his studies.
