The rationality of maintaining the production by the small commodity producers turned out to be a questionable phenomenon when the production on the subsistence level was precariously undermined in terms of costs as a result of policies directed to punish the agricultural sector put into application after 1980. As opposed to this; the number of family enterprises representing small commodity producers is on the increase in today's Turkey. Paradoxical as it seems to be; this is accounted by the fact that the small commodity producers introduced two resistance mechanisms despite the growing capitalist production and distribution relations. These can be cited as an incjease of labour exerted by the household people on production and orienting towards working in agriculture and non-agricultural multiple works. Working as wage earners in agriculture has focused on production activities whereby the dependency of the agricultural production is lessened through the technological development. Working in the non-agricultural multiple jobs can be assessed as a phenomenon connected with the proleterinisation which the capitalist mode of production supplied to the small commodity producers within the framework of the interaction between the rural and urban centres.