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Working at home does not, for Ernst Seidler, identify a single economic condition. In this regional survey of Upper Styria, originally published in 1899, he distinguishes dependence on a commercial intermediary from an occupation’s subordinate place in household income. The distinction becomes concrete in tailors accepting low piece rates for assured orders, rural makers selling wooden implements directly to customers, and an Aussee association supplying embroiderers with materials and access to markets. Seidler’s classificatory perspective makes apparently similar livelihoods diverge: even widespread loden weaving need not count as home industry when weavers work in their customers’ houses. The survey offers a precise way to examine how workplace, ownership of materials, seasonal earnings, and control over sales combine—or fail to combine—in domestic production.