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Definition of Pieceworkers
1. pieceworker [n] - See also: pieceworker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pieceworkers
Literary usage of Pieceworkers
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)
"EARNINGS OF pieceworkers. What has been said about the week workers is likewise
... Among the operators the women pieceworkers earning $14 a week or more ..."
2. The Industrial Evolution of the United States by Carroll Davidson Wright (1897)
"The tendency in all industries is to regulate the pay pieceworkers of pieceworkers
to conform to the pay of operatives en- a gaged in the same line of work, ..."
3. Employers & Workmen Under the Munitions of War Acts, 1915-1917 by Thomas Alexander Fyfe, Great Britain (1918)
"The claim of the Boilermakers' Society was for an advance of 100 per cent, on
pre-war time rates, and 25 per cent, to pieceworkers. ..."
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