piecework

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.