Session #97 · 1981–83

Speech #970034845

On May 1. Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan suddenly announced he planned to lift the restrictions against homework in the seven industries. Donovan saw this as opening up job opportunities in many "cottage" industries and encouraging homeworkers to report minimum wage violations "without fear of losing their jobs." The problem of sweatshops in the home and their devastating effect on legitimate business operations remain a problem of the cities and the exploitation of immigrants. legal and illegal. With the Administration cutting back on wagehour enforcement and with its inability or unwillingness to enforce the law against homework. Donovan is saying that what is now illegal shall be made legal.
Keywords matched
immigrants

Classification

Also mentioned
legal immigrants
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

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Unknown
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Chamber
State
Gender
Date
1981-05-28
Speech ID
970034845
Paragraph
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