{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T10:18:04Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 20.4, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a0951e-a3a4-7573-8b27-9801e281ebe6\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"vr.tr.home-industry", "name": "home industry", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.ORG" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q6953855/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.home-industry", "name": "home industry", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise work conducted from a residence or combined workplace-residence, assess its operating conditions, and identify feasible actions within work, household and premises constraints.", "definition": "Home industry is work conducted from a residential building or a combined workplace-residence, including goods production, home-based services and remote office work.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the relationship between work and the residential building or combined workplace-residence where it is conducted, including work organisation, resources, household interactions and operating conditions.", "in_scope": [ "The home-based work activity and its relationship to an employer, client or registered enterprise.", "Goods production, services and remote office work conducted from residential premises.", "Household, hired and subcontracted labour and their decision rights.", "Materials, equipment, capacity and interference with household activities.", "Employment, market access, commissioning arrangements and income from the work.", "Operating permissions, work hazards and continuity conditions." ], "out_of_scope": [ "Ordinary household activities unrelated to employment, self-employment or commissioned work.", "Work conducted entirely away from residential or combined workplace-residence premises.", "The dwelling's complete architectural and property model.", "A national industry's domestic-versus-foreign classification.", "The full model of each manufactured product or material.", "Factories or workshops that are neither residential premises nor part of a combined workplace-residence." ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Work is conducted from a residential building or combined workplace-residence, rather than the premises serving only as a business address.", "The work may involve goods production, services or remote office duties.", "Household ownership, household labour and a particular enterprise size are not required.", "The worker may be self-employed, employed by an external organisation or commissioned by a client.", "Work and residential uses share premises, although their spaces and resources may be separate." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Production arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "own-account production; commissioned production; subcontracted processing; mixed; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Shows who controls output, specifications and access to customers." }, { "name": "Relationship to enterprise identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "household production unit linked to identified proprietor, cooperative, company or commissioning enterprise; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents treating the household, production site and legal enterprise as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Domestic premises dependence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "shared living space; dedicated room; attached workshop; domestic outbuilding; multiple arrangements", "why_it_matters": "Locates the practical boundary between household use and industrial activity." }, { "name": "Labour contribution", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "person-hours per reporting period, separated by household and non-household workers", "why_it_matters": "Makes unpaid household work and reliance on hired labour visible." }, { "name": "Production capacity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "specified product units per period under stated labour, space and equipment assumptions", "why_it_matters": "Supports realistic order commitments without assuming unrestricted use of domestic resources." }, { "name": "Control of productive assets", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "identified owner and authorised user of workspace, equipment, materials and finished goods", "why_it_matters": "Determines which changes the producer can make independently." }, { "name": "Household cash return", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "currency per period after explicitly identified cash costs", "why_it_matters": "Shows the cash contribution while keeping unpaid labour and shared household costs visible separately." }, { "name": "Buyer concentration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "percentage of sales revenue attributable to the largest buyer over a stated period", "why_it_matters": "Indicates exposure to one buyer's pricing, rejection or cancellation decisions." }, { "name": "Operating state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "preparing; active; seasonal pause; temporarily suspended; relocating; ceased; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes inactivity from permanent closure." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a candidate activity by its goods production, household organisation and use of domestic premises.", "Map who can accept orders, commit household resources and change production methods.", "Estimate feasible output against household schedules, workspace and equipment constraints.", "Assess an order's expected household return, payment exposure and production demands.", "Identify production activities requiring separation from domestic use or verification of local requirements.", "Compare remaining household-based, sharing external facilities or moving production to a separate workshop." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe home industries and their place in local economies from sourced material.", "Point home producers to rules on licensing, safety and labour rights.", "Help a home producer track orders and stock with their consent." ], "must_not": [ "Help hide child labour or unpaid work by family members.", "Advise selling home-made food or cosmetics without meeting safety rules.", "Publish home producers' addresses without consent.", "Help a buyer cut piece rates below lawful pay." ], "requires_human": [ "Reporting suspected exploitation in a household.", "Deciding on licensing or closure of a home business." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Home industry supports families but can hide exploitation, especially of women and children.", "Homeworkers often lack the protections of factory workers." ], "affected_parties": [ "Homeworkers", "Children in the household", "Buyers of the goods" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The household that runs it; local authorities license and inspect it.", "master_systems": [ "Local business registers" ] }, "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Hidden child labour and long unpaid hours.", "Fire and chemical risks from production in living spaces.", "Unsafe food or goods sold without inspection." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Home Work Convention, 1996 (No. 177), International Labour Organization.", "Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138), International Labour Organization." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Home industry occurs where household space supports small-scale production of goods for sale.", "It is encountered in activities such as textile work, craft production and food processing, where residential and productive uses share space or resources.", "The concept is used to assess livelihoods, workspace needs and the relationship between production and household life." ], "visual_identification": [ "Work equipment, materials or an office workspace may occupy part of a residence or combined workplace-residence.", "Work-related stock, service facilities or office equipment may suggest home-based work but do not establish it on their own.", "Domestic facilities coexist with workspace, although observation alone cannot confirm the activity's employment or commercial status." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q6953855: home industry", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6953855", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Cottage industry", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_industry", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "household-production-boundary", "name": "Household production boundary", "description": "Establishes what constitutes the production unit and why it qualifies as home industry.", "rationale": "The term must be distinguished from domestic chores, home-based services and the unrelated meaning of domestic national industry.", "layers": [ { "id": "activity-and-exchange", "name": "Activity and exchange", "description": "Identifies goods production and the intended destination of its output.", "findings": [ { "id": "goods-for-exchange", "name": "Goods for exchange", "description": "Record the transformation or processing performed and distinguish exchanged output from household consumption.", "questions": [ { "text": "What goods are made or processed, and which production stages occur at home?", "kind": "definition", "id": "goods-for-exchange-q01" }, { "text": "Which outputs are intended for sale, barter, commissioned delivery or household use?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "goods-for-exchange-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "household-and-enterprise", "name": "Household and enterprise", "description": "Separates household organisation, production location and enterprise identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "production-unit-identity", "name": "Production unit identity", "description": "Record the household's organising role without assuming that it constitutes a separate legal person.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who organises production, and how is that person or group connected to the resident household?", "kind": "definition", "id": "production-unit-identity-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence links this production unit to any registered business, cooperative or commissioning enterprise?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "production-unit-identity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "domestic-workspace-and-process", "name": "Domestic workspace and process", "description": "Connects the production workflow to space, equipment and resources shared with domestic life.", "rationale": "Home industry capacity depends on when and how household premises can support production.", "layers": [ { "id": "workspace-sharing", "name": "Workspace sharing", "description": "Records where production occurs and when those spaces serve domestic purposes.", "findings": [ { "id": "domestic-production-interface", "name": "Domestic production interface", "description": "Identify shared rooms, storage areas and utilities whose competing uses constrain work.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which production and storage spaces are also used for cooking, sleeping, care or other household activities?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "domestic-production-interface-q01" }, { "text": "How many hours per period is each required space actually available for production?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "domestic-production-interface-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "workflow-and-capacity", "name": "Workflow and capacity", "description": "Maps production stages and the limits imposed by household-scale resources.", "findings": [ { "id": "household-production-bottleneck", "name": "Household production bottleneck", "description": "Record the limiting production stage, including any dependence on processing outside the home.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which stage limits deliverable output under the current household schedule, equipment and utility supply?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "household-production-bottleneck-q01" }, { "text": "Which stages must be performed elsewhere, and what access or delivery arrangements make them available?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "household-production-bottleneck-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "household-labour-and-control", "name": "Household labour and control", "description": "Makes work contributions, compensation and authority within the household production arrangement explicit.", "rationale": "Household membership alone does not establish employment status, voluntary participation, compensation or control over earnings.", "layers": [ { "id": "work-participation", "name": "Work participation", "description": "Records who performs production work and how it intersects with household responsibilities.", "findings": [ { "id": "visible-and-unpaid-work", "name": "Visible and unpaid work", "description": "Account for paid and unpaid contributions, including preparation, purchasing, packaging and recordkeeping.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who performs each task, for how many hours, and under what payment or household-sharing arrangement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "visible-and-unpaid-work-q01" }, { "text": "How do care duties, schooling and other work constrain each participant's available production time?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "visible-and-unpaid-work-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "production-decision-rights", "name": "Production decision rights", "description": "Identifies control over orders, methods, productive assets and proceeds.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-over-household-resources", "name": "Authority over household resources", "description": "Distinguish the person doing the work from those entitled to commit resources or receive earnings.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who may accept an order, change a production method or commit shared household space and equipment?", "kind": "action", "id": "authority-over-household-resources-q01" }, { "text": "Who receives production income, and what agreement governs compensation and its distribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-over-household-resources-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "orders-and-household-returns", "name": "Orders and household returns", "description": "Models how household production reaches buyers and produces an economic return.", "rationale": "Order conditions can transfer material, quality and payment risks to a household even when production volume appears viable.", "layers": [ { "id": "buyer-and-commissioning-arrangements", "name": "Buyer and commissioning arrangements", "description": "Distinguishes direct selling from production controlled through intermediaries or commissioning firms.", "findings": [ { "id": "order-control-and-acceptance", "name": "Order control and acceptance", "description": "Record who supplies inputs, specifies the output, accepts delivery and bears the cost of rejection.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who owns the inputs and output, sets specifications and determines whether delivered work is accepted?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "order-control-and-acceptance-q01" }, { "text": "What recorded terms govern price, rejection, rework, cancellation and payment timing?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "order-control-and-acceptance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "household-production-economics", "name": "Household production economics", "description": "Assesses returns while exposing unpaid work and shared domestic costs.", "findings": [ { "id": "return-after-production-demands", "name": "Return after production demands", "description": "Separate cash surplus from estimates that account for household labour, space and equipment use.", "questions": [ { "text": "What remains from receipts after materials, energy, transport, fees, paid labour and rework over a stated period?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "return-after-production-demands-q01" }, { "text": "How does the estimated return change when unpaid labour and shared household resources are explicitly valued?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "return-after-production-demands-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "domestic-operating-conditions", "name": "Domestic operating conditions", "description": "Assesses whether a specific production process can operate within its domestic setting and continue through change.", "rationale": "Production affects residents and neighbours as well as workers, and permission to occupy a dwelling does not by itself settle production requirements.", "layers": [ { "id": "resident-exposure-and-permissions", "name": "Resident exposure and permissions", "description": "Connects process-specific hazards and operating requirements to the actual dwelling and jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditions-for-home-production", "name": "Conditions for home production", "description": "Record evidence about domestic exposure pathways and applicable requirements without inferring compliance from business registration.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which process materials, emissions, heat sources, machines or stored goods can expose residents or neighbours, and what separation measures exist?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "conditions-for-home-production-q01" }, { "text": "Which current authoritative records establish the premises, product and operating requirements applicable to this activity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "conditions-for-home-production-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "continuity-and-relocation", "name": "Continuity and relocation", "description": "Tracks dependence on household circumstances and thresholds for changing the production setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "household-dependent-continuity", "name": "Household-dependent continuity", "description": "Identify how loss of domestic space, key labour or household consent affects operation and classification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which changes in residence, household labour or access to equipment would interrupt production?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "household-dependent-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "What observed capacity or operating constraint would trigger reduced output, shared external facilities or relocation to a separate workshop?", "kind": "action", "id": "household-dependent-continuity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "No sense is recorded; verify whether the registry intends household production or domestic national industry.", "SOC.ORG should not imply a specific legal entity: the term ordinarily identifies a form of production or enterprise.", "This is recall-based; the ILO instruments' applicability and any local registration, zoning or product requirements need jurisdiction-specific verification." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of home industry this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Independent household production for sale", "Subcontracted home production under a putting-out system" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of home industry this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "International Labour Organization Home Work Convention, 1996 (No. 177): concerns qualifying home work performed for remuneration for an employer; it does not cover all independent household enterprises.", "International Labour Organization Home Work Recommendation, 1996 (No. 184): provides accompanying guidance on protection of homeworkers." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of home industry this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Textile weaving, sewing and embroidery for sale", "Household manufacture of handicrafts", "Small-scale food processing for sale", "Home-based assembly or finishing of goods supplied by contractors", "Supplementing agricultural or other household income" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of home industry this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Workplace hazards entering living spaces, including dust, fumes, machinery and fire risks", "Unpaid or undercounted household labour obscuring production costs and earnings", "Dependence on intermediaries who control orders, prices and access to markets", "Inconsistent product quality where equipment, storage or process controls are inadequate", "Excessive working hours or child labour where household and production responsibilities overlap" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of home industry this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Definitions and eligibility thresholds for cottage, household and micro industries vary across national statistical and policy systems.", "The term can also mean a country's domestic industry in contrast to foreign industry; that sense is broader than household production." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of home industry this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Cottage industry", "difference": "Often synonymous; some usages include small workshops beyond the dwelling, so a strict distinction requires a local definition." }, { "name": "Home-based business", "difference": "Includes services and administrative businesses, whereas home industry ordinarily denotes production of goods." }, { "name": "Home work", "difference": "Describes a work arrangement, particularly remunerated work for an employer outside the employer's premises; home industry can also involve independent producers." }, { "name": "Factory production", "difference": "Concentrates production in dedicated industrial premises rather than household premises." }, { "name": "Subsistence production", "difference": "Produces primarily for the household's own consumption rather than sale." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of home industry this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend household-based goods production, a historically specific cottage-industry arrangement, or domestic national industry?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this concept, requiring a registry link instead of a separate publication?", "What boundary should apply when production occupies a detached workshop on residential land or increasingly relies on non-household workers?", "Which distinctions between independent household producers and dependent industrial homeworkers must this registry entry preserve?", "Which authoritative sources and jurisdiction-specific definitions should establish the researched scope, labour categories and operating requirements?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 17, "questions": 27 } }