ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 examines homework invisibility and its implications for equality and justice for homeworkers. Following feminist debates, work invisibility is socially and politically constructed, through the social relations of domination (Allen and Wolkowitz, 1987; Boris and Daniels, 1989; Thornton, 1991). The concept of ‘invisibilisation’ (Krinsky and Simonet, 2012) reveals that homework has been re-cast as non-work by neoliberal institutions and ideology through such tactics as renaming, trivialising, normalising, ignoring, denying and justifying homework, to diminish and devalue it and to reduce labour power. Activist-research has a key role in supporting visibilisation strategies, and may be used to reverse invisibility and bring about the recognition and rights that come with visibility.
