Abstract
The Reagan Administration, as part of a broad strategy to provide greater flexibility of investment opportunities for capital and to undermine organized labor, lifted the bans on homework in six of the seven industries in which it was originally regulated in 1942. The Administration argued that deregulation would give women greater freedom to combine domestic responsibilities with wage-earning work. Trade union leaders opposed deregulation on the grounds that it would allow manufacturers to use homeworkers to cut production costs and would ultimately lead to the erosion of protective labor legislation for both factory workers and homeworkers. However, the labor movement's failure to locate the issue of homework within the broader context of the gendered nature of economic restructuring has led it to adopt a political strategy which, ironically, will merely encourage homework's further growth.
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