Example Sentences

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The manager's term of employment is longer, but the professional pieceworker, such as I am when I write this article, has usually no contracted term, and is only paid for actual work done.

From War-Time Financial Problems by Withers, Hartley

She was the one pieceworker in the building.

From Working With the Working Woman by Parker, Cornelia Stratton

The pieceworker with more satisfaction to himself and profit to the world will produce far more than he would turn out under a daily wage if his earnings are thereby increased.

From The Inhumanity of Socialism by Adams, Edward Francis

Scientifically speaking, the author is a pieceworker, whose productiveness is fitful and temporary.

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel

The long evenings full of the smell of tallow; maps that curled under the fingers; the well-thumbed letters from Aaron Turkletaub, older brother to Mosher and already a successful pieceworker on skirts in Brooklyn.

From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie