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Definition of Pieceworker

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pieceworker

Literary usage of Pieceworker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Wages and Regularity of Employment in the Dress and Waist Industry of New by Nahum Isaac Stone (1915)
"Among buttonhole makers, the women had approximately one pieceworker to two week ... the women had one and one-half week workers for every pieceworker, ..."

2. Annual Report by Missouri Division of Mine Inspection, Missouri Bureau of Mines (1911)
"It is the duty of the pieceworker to throw switch for the driver when driver is pulling out his car. Injured party had thrown switch too far, ..."

3. Readings in Vocational Guidance by Meyer Bloomfield (1915)
"... sometimes by the forewoman ; sometimes by an experienced time-worker; sometimes by a pieceworker who is allowed a certain share of the piece-rate value ..."

4. Readings in Vocational Guidance by Meyer Bloomfield (1915)
"... sometimes by an experienced time-worker ; sometimes by a pieceworker who is allowed a certain share of the piece-rate value of the learner's work; ..."

5. Hours, Earnings, and Conditions of Labor of Women in Indiana Mercantile by Marie Louise Obenauer, Royal Meeker, Frances Wadsworth Valentine, Indiana Commission on Working Women (1914)
"... being based on the productivity of the average worker, will permit the exceptionally skilled pieceworker to earn much more than the average. ..."

6. Business Costs by De Witt Carl Eggleston, Frederick Bertrand Robinson (1921)
"... piecework system of wage payment is introduced it is necessary to provide an adequate method of keeping a check on the production of each pieceworker, ..."

7. Eight Hours for Laborers on Government Work by Victor Howard Metcalf (1905)
"»No change in wages of time workers nor in piece rates ol pieceworker*. ... Time workers only: no change in piece rates of pieceworker*. ..."

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