piece-worker

My grandfather was cursed with being a slow piece-worker, a sweet, ineffectual man who went jobless months at a time.

We Remember - Eleanor Hatkin Freedman, 1924 - 1974 2010

The business man finishing his work early that he may go to the baseball game; the boy at school rushing through his arithmetic that he may not be kept after school; the piece-worker, the amount of whose day's pay depends upon the quantity and quality he can produce; the student of

The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste Lillian Moller Gilbreth 1925

It was his aunt's voice calling and he went instantly to a tall, austere lady in a linen collar who was knitting wash-rags with the feverish haste of a piece-worker in a factory.

The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916

A piece-worker at least gets some advantage to counterbalance long hours.

Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Edith Wyatt 1915

She was a piece-worker and she had earned from $8 to

Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Edith Wyatt 1915

In conditions such as described above, Natalya and other shirt-waist makers were working last fall, when one day she saw a girl, a piece-worker, shaking her head and objecting sadly to the low price the foreman was offering her for making a waist.

Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Edith Wyatt 1915

In all of them the wage-earner is on exactly the same footing as the salary-earner or the professional piece-worker.

War-Time Financial Problems Hartley Withers 1908

After a Sunday of rest I arrive somewhat ahead of time on Monday morning, which leaves me a few moments for conversation with a piece-worker who is pasting labels on mustard jars.

The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls John Van Vorst 1900

I was eager to begin, but was forced to wait before idle tools till work was given me -- hard ordeal for ambitious piece-worker.

The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls John Van Vorst 1900

The publisher is not a piece-worker; he has to keep a large organization going, involving ramifications in every town.

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895