Also une pigiste = pieceworker, typesetter, freelance journalist who is paid by the line. From Wordnik.com. [Words in a French Life] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Inhumanity of Socialism] Reference
Scientifically speaking, the author is a pieceworker, whose productiveness is fitful and temporary. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Mankind in the Making] Reference
She was the one pieceworker in the building. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
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