Building upon the work of Anna Davin and Sheila Blackburn in particular, I will address the issue of industrial homework, which was widespread in late Victorian and Edwardian England, in connection with child labour. I will attempt to shed light on the main characteristics of the industrial employment of children at home by investigating about its extent, the working conditions that prevailed in the homes of outworkers together with the gender division of labour. In the process, I will analyse whether child homeworkers were only to be found in certain sweated trades and locations - as it was argued by some witnesses at the Select Committee on Homework appointed in 1907. A review of the debate on the advisability of both homework and child labour in general will lead me to argue that the industrial employment of school-age children was often deemed inevitable in the context of rampant poverty, and perhaps even beneficial. I will next discuss whether the sexual segregation of the labour market may have contributed to the prevalence of child labour among industrial homeworkers. I will analyse some of the arguments according to which child labour in turn may have helped sustain exploitation. Lastly, I will focus on the main challenges faced by the opponents of such an elusive form of child labour, on the remedies that they championed and on the effectiveness of such remedies. To do so I will rely on a wide range of primary sources (official reports, educational statistics, publications by pressure groups as well as newspapers and autobiographies).