pieceworker

Also une pigiste = pieceworker, typesetter, freelance journalist who is paid by the line

Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007

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.

The Inhumanity of Socialism Edward Francis Adams

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.

War-Time Financial Problems Hartley Withers 1908

The whole trend of circumstance is to substitute science for mere rote skill in him, to demand initiative and an intelligent self-adaptation to new discoveries and new methods, to make him a professional man and a job and pieceworker after the fashion of the great majority of professional men.

Mankind in the Making 1906

The whole trend of circumstance is to substitute science for mere rote skill in him, to demand initiative and an intelligent self-adaptation to new discoveries and new methods, to make him a professional man and a job and pieceworker after the fashion of the great majority of professional men.

Mankind in the Making Herbert George 1903

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

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895