Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Labor paid for by the day or the hour, in opposition to piece-work, or labor paid for by the amount produced.
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- noun Alternative form of
timework .
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Examples
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There would be all the difference between the listless and disgustful labour of enforced time-work, and a labour in part prompted by the hope of expediting the term of release.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various
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It may be, however, that a time-work system is ill suited to the trades or industries in question.
The Settlement of Wage Disputes Herbert Feis 1932
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He had learned the rules governing English labor unions; he knew all about piece-work and time-work, fixed charges and shop costs, together with the ability of every plant figuring on the Robinson-Ray contract to turn out the work in the necessary time.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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Some communities operated on the basis of time-work, or the gang system; others on piece-work or the task system.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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He resists education and clings to apprenticeship, he fights for time-work, he obstructs new inventions, he clings to the ideal of short hours, high pay, shirk and let the master worry.
Mankind in the Making Herbert George 1903
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Time work is healthier, but no one would believe how the men are driven in shops where time-work exists. "
White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor Louis Albert Banks 1894
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