To make up their deficit they cultivate side crops, catch fish or shrimps, raise poultry or pigs, or sell part of their labour power, and thus eke out a living, hoping in the midst of hardship and destitution to tide over the year.
Mandarin
小手工业者所以称为半无产阶级，是因为他们虽然自有简单的生产手段，且系一种自由职业，但他们也常常被迫出卖一部分劳动力，其经济地位略与农村中的贫农相当。
小手工業者所以稱為半無產階級，是因為他們雖然自有簡單的生產手段，且係一種自由職業，但他們也常常被迫出賣一部分勞動力，其經濟地位略與農村中的貧農相當。
xiǎo shǒu gōng yè zhě suǒ yǐ chēng wéi bàn wú chǎn jiē jí ， shì yīn wèi tā men suī rán zì yǒu jiǎn dān de shēng chǎn shǒu duàn ， qiě xì yī zhǒng zì yóu zhí yè ， dàn tā men yě cháng cháng bèi pò chū mài yī bù fen láo dòng lì ， qí jīng jì dì wèi lüè yǔ nóng cūn zhōng de pín nóng xiāng dāng ．
The small handicraftspeople are called semi-proletarians because, though they own some simple means of production and moreover are self-employed, they too are often forced to sell part of their labour power and are somewhat similar to the poor peasants in economic status.