Code of Massachusetts Regulations
940 CMR - OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Title 940 CMR 17.00 - Industrial Homework
Section 17.01 - Definitions
Employer: any person who, directly or indirectly, or through an employee or agent, furnishes to another person any materials or articles to be manufactured or worked upon in a home, and thereafter to be returned to himself or on his order, for use other than the personal use of himself or of a member of his family.
Home: any room, house, apartment or other premises, whichever is most extensive, used in whole or in part as a place of dwelling.
Industrial homework: any manufacture of or work upon materials or articles in a home for an employer, exclusive of domestic service.
The verb " to manufacture", as used in its different modes and tenses, includes to prepare, alter, repair or finish in whole or in part.