ABSTRACT
Chapter 1 engages with seminal texts about homework and relevant data sets to examine the key characteristics of homework. From an intersectional perspective, homework is a highly exploited form of poor women’s labour, characterised by the insecure supply of work, poor working conditions and low piece-rates. Examining the links between women, home and work, we see that the divisions of labour by gender, class, race and ethnicity facilitate and perpetuate the existence of homework. The principle determinants that shape the injustices and inequalities of homework are the social relations of domination. These social relations are the subject of subsequent chapters and foreground related labour challenges in bringing positive change to homework.
