Our friends were apprehensive and on piece-work rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Eight Bells Toll]

Speed in piece-work as a rule is a means by which she can earn high wages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference

It was piece-work, and the more skilful he was, the bigger wages he earned.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE APOSTATE: written by Jack London] Reference

Women are generally employed and are paid on a piece-work basis or by the pound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference

The workmen build the beds by piece-work and receive one-half cent per running foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure] Reference

You can lose sight of the writing in doing the piece-work you fill in the gaps with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full-Time Writing Life: If It Doesn’t Kill You First, It’ll Kill You Second] Reference

Most of the females work upon the piece-work system, but the men are paid weekly wages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced] Reference

"Too low piece-work tariffs, slave-driving and barbaric disciplinary measures," said Rubashov.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autumn] Reference

Should we privatize Congress and pay them on a piece-work basis, for the number of laws they pass?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Ridiculously Practical Recommendations For Curbing America's Addiction To War] Reference

You end up just being glad you aren't on piece-work; and start striking heavily into the expenses. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral In Berlin]

Also, Holly is looking for a Chicago part-time sewist to help her with some piece-work at lucitebox.    From Wordnik.com.  [July 2008] Reference

Living Form made available by the Archive are what interest this piece-work aficionado, at any rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golgonooza Text] Reference

As soon as she is experienced, the girl in the factory is almost certain to find herself on "piece-work.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference

She just squeezed my arm a bit more and even the pile-driver would have gone on strike for piece-work rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Eight Bells Toll]

With regard to piece-work, the girl should have sufficient judgment not to force herself beyond her strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference

The basic pay is 0.70 RM per day; certain prisoners who are employed on piece-work rates earn up to 2 RM per day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Work Camp 924 GW] Reference

The department has developed its own plan of time payments, which is much like the piece-work system employed in trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of a Trade School] Reference

It was much easier to see the piece-work construction technique on the fragments of the finer cut-work leather as the pieces lay flat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubian Cemetery Week 1: A Loincloth] Reference

As I stated earlier, the reforms we propose are to reward best practices, focus on patient care, not the current piece-work reimbursement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama AMA Speech: FULL VIDEO, FULL TEXT] Reference

Here was an incentive again, for it was piece-work.    From Wordnik.com.  [When God Laughs: and other stories] Reference

In spring and autumn they hoe and do other piece-work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Toilers of the Field] Reference

In spring and autumn their wages are much increased by piece-work, hoeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Toilers of the Field] Reference

He was a kind of Italian piece-work man, who made himself useful in the shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Sherlock Holmes] Reference

It fixed a minimum wage, much higher than the then ruling rate, and instituted piece-work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia] Reference

You know the game all right, and we're sure that you're not likely to be a piece-work hog.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Scientific Management] Reference

The regular wage was guaranteed whatever the output, and the piece-work rate was added to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia] Reference

Another day two of the most skilful workmen came and asked to have piece-work introduced again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04] Reference

Just so long as men are paid on the piece-work system we shall not better the condition, either.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Porcelain] Reference

I made a drawing of a model, and took it to Mr. Kruesi, at that time engaged on piece-work for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Men of Mind] Reference

If the employers find a good workman, who is earning good wages by piece-work, they try to reduce prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor] Reference

On the side of the workman, it is generally only the idle and awkward who oppose piece-work on principle.    From Wordnik.com.  [System der volkswirthschaft. English] Reference

As he was a rapid workman and paid no attention to the clock, I took a fancy to him, and gave him piece-work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference

In which case, the only alternative is to draw up different piece-work scales for different conditions of work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Settlement of Wage Disputes] Reference

When you are on piece-work you squander very little time gazing at uplift visitors in the wrong kind of clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emma McChesney and Co.] Reference

It is miserably paid at a shilling a day, or in some cases on piece-work terms which hardly work out at a higher figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Change in the Village] Reference

There are some engaged in risky behaviours with truck drivers, others looking for piece-work - maybe unloading and loading stock in a shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [IRIN] Reference