In piecework, which is what most of us do, the case is none the less plain for being even less material. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Morals] Reference
Under the "piecework" mode, workers are paid 11 to 17 dollars per 23-kg box of nuts, which takes 12 to 14 hours to gather. From Wordnik.com. [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference
I don't remember what they paid by piecework then. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron, 1979 December 12. Interview H-106. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron] Reference
I know they didn't pay much on piecework at first. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron, 1979 December 12. Interview H-106. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron] Reference
Do you know why they went to piecework at that time?. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Ethel Bowman Shockley, June 24, 1977. Interview H-0045. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Most of the girls in Department 10 were on piecework. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
As with candy, I got excited about going on piecework. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
They were trying to get it up with the piecework rating. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with George R. Elmore, March 11, 1976. Interview H-0266. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Tillie seemed the only girl on our floor doing piecework. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
I think of it less as piecework, more as entrepreneurship. From Wordnik.com. [Gigonomics | clusterflock] Reference
They had taken her off time rates and put her on piecework. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
No, because when you're on piecework you don't take many breaks. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Roy Lee and Mary Ruth Auton, February 28, 1980. Interview H-0108. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Page 33 other than piecework method of payment — an hourly rate. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with George R. Elmore, March 11, 1976. Interview H-0266. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
You people, you've been running this planet like a piecework factory. From Wordnik.com. [A Piece Of The Action] Reference
We knew there were informants out there getting paid piecework rates. From Wordnik.com. [Water Sleeps]
There were only certain departments that would get paid by piecework. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Rebecca Clark, June 21, 2000. Interview K-0536. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
That was twelve dollars a week. (?) JH: You weren't on piecework then. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron, 1979 December 12. Interview H-106. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron] Reference
And I know brickmakers go about working at piecework in different places. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
They was on hour work at first, and then they were put on piecework later. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron, 1979 December 12. Interview H-106. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron] Reference
Which did you like better, working for a daily wage or being on piecework?. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron, December 12, 1979. Interview H-0106. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
And it was piecework, so the more steel you broke, the more money you made. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2004] Reference
JH: Which did you like better, working for a daily wage or being on piecework?. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron, 1979 December 12. Interview H-106. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron] Reference
Being that he was a piecework handyman his lifestyle was difficult to maintain. From Wordnik.com. [One Bullet = Nine Convictions] Reference
And a steady paycheck is always good - many actors prefer that to piecework. From Wordnik.com. [More Galactica This Summer] Reference
"AIGA would never come up with a piecework price list for design," scoffs Grefé. From Wordnik.com. [Why Designers Hate Crowdsourcing] Reference
We were all, even I after the third day, on piecework at our table, except Nancy. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
They wouldn't put me on piecework, and they were paying the girl running the next line. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with George R. Elmore, March 11, 1976. Interview H-0266. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
He hurried between tall slanted tables on which some sort of piecework was in progress. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
An example of a job with measurement but not leverage is doing piecework in a sweatshop. From Wordnik.com. [How to Make Wealth] Reference
The sewers and the turners was on piecework then, and you just got pay for what you made. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron, 1979 December 12. Interview H-106. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron] Reference
In the shell-loading plants and piecework occupations, however, their wages were much higher. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
But, of course, if you was on piecework, you could make a little more if you worked real hard. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron, 1979 December 12. Interview H-106. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron] Reference
Some jobs you couldn't do piecework; it was just a general overhead sweepers and things of that kind. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with George R. Elmore, March 11, 1976. Interview H-0266. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
They paid you so much an hour (you didn't get paid piecework), so I don't remember making any more than. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Eula McGill, February 3, 1976. Interview G-0040-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Maybe some of the sewers could make more than the cutters when they was on piecework; I don't know about that. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron, 1979 December 12. Interview H-106. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron] Reference
And then somebody else that looked like they'd be so slow at sewing on piecework like that, then they would be fast. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Gladys and Glenn Hollar, February 26, 1980. Interview H-0128. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
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