(a) “Contractor.” Any person who for the account or benefit of an employer, representative contractor or other person, distributes to a home-worker, or any other person, not recruited or engaged by such employer, representative contractor, or other person, articles or materials to be manufactured in a home, and thereafter to be returned to him or otherwise disposed of in accordance with his directions.

(b) “Department.” The Department of Labor and Industry of this Commonwealth.

(c) “Employer.” Any person who for his own account or benefit, directly or indirectly, or through an employe, agent, independent contractor, or any other person,

(c.1) “Family.” The spouse and children of a home-worker, and the mother, father, grandmother, and grandfather of a home-worker and his spouse.

(d) “Home.” Any room, house, apartment, or other premises, whichever is most extensively used, in whole or in part, as a place of dwelling, and including outbuildings upon premises that are primarily used as a place of dwelling, where such outbuildings are under the control of the person dwelling on such premises.

(e) “Home-worker.” Any person engaged in manufacturing in a home, articles or materials for an employer, a representative contractor, or a contractor.

(f) “Industrial Homework.” Any manufacture in a home of articles, or materials for an employer, a representative contractor, or a contractor.

(g) “Manufacture.” To prepare, alter, repair, finish, or process, in whole or in part, or handle in any way connected with the production, wrapping, packaging, or preparation for display of an article or materials.

(h) “Person.” An individual, partnership, firm, association, domestic or foreign corporation, the legal representatives of a deceased individual, or the receiver, trustee, or successor of an individual, partnership, association, or corporation.

(i) “Representative Contractor.” Any person who receives from an employer, or contractor not within the State, articles or materials to be distributed by him to any home-worker, or other person, not recruited or engaged by such employer or contractor, to be manufactured in a home, and thereafter to be returned to him, or otherwise disposed of, in accordance with his directions.

The singular shall include the plural, and the masculine shall include the feminine and neuter.