piecework

[ UK /pˈiːswɜːk/ ]
[ US /ˈpiˌswɝk/ ]
NOUN
  1. work paid for according to the quantity produced
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How To Use piecework In A Sentence

  • Throughout the 19th century, they used piecework wages and inside subcontracting to control labor costs.
  • She did what they called 'piecework' and would sew up these dresses for a penny each. Ready for His Autumn Waltz
  • Thus, Italian women supplemented the family income by taking in boarders and doing piecework alongside their daughters.
  • It is not uncommon for women to do piecework in their homes.
  • Few homeworkers doing piecework in manufacturing enjoy employee status.
  • Health care is one of the few areas left where society pays on a piecework basis: the more you do, the more you're paid.
  • I think of it less as piecework, more as entrepreneurship. Gigonomics | clusterflock
  • The dialogue, too, feels like piecework, as if the bons mots and ripostes have been assembled from a library of index cards.
  • Thus the allocation of performance-based wage increases, piecework bonuses and other pay incentives is important in determining employee motivation.
  • The new contract includes piecework payment that would mean workers were only paid for the number of beasts they slaughter and prepare.
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