piecework

• If the worker's wage is determined on the basis of piecework or productivity, the average wage which the worker receives for his actual workdays during the last year of his service shall be used as the basis for calculating any entitlements determined for the worker under this Law. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• At first sight it appears that piecework is an exception to the general rule that the capitalist buys labor-power and not labor itself. —  Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles
• Any effort, however, to establish wages and hours for other persons than those taking part in their meetings, or any strike on questions of piecework or number of apprentices or machinery or non-union workmen, was still illegal, both by this statute and by Common Law. —  An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
• When he discussed with various managers the question of what output would be the possible maximum, they agreed that under premium work, piecework, or any of the ordinary plans for stimulating the men, an output of 18 to 25 tons would be the extreme possibility. —  Psychology and Industrial Efficiency
• They did piecework--so much per fathom, and were constitutionally, he admitted, a bit more particular as to the so much than as to the fathom. —  A Maid of the Silver Sea

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