Piece Worker

My grandfather was cursed with being a slow piece-worker, a sweet, ineffectual man who went jobless months at a time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The business man finishing his work early that he may go to the baseball game; the boy at school rushing through his arithmetic that he may not be kept after school; the piece-worker, the amount of whose day's pay depends upon the quantity and quality he can produce; the student of ❋ Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1925)

It was his aunt's voice calling and he went instantly to a tall, austere lady in a linen collar who was knitting wash-rags with the feverish haste of a piece-worker in a factory. ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)

A piece-worker at least gets some advantage to counterbalance long hours. ❋ Edith Wyatt (1915)

She was a piece-worker and she had earned from $8 to ❋ Edith Wyatt (1915)

In conditions such as described above, Natalya and other shirt-waist makers were working last fall, when one day she saw a girl, a piece-worker, shaking her head and objecting sadly to the low price the foreman was offering her for making a waist. ❋ Edith Wyatt (1915)

In all of them the wage-earner is on exactly the same footing as the salary-earner or the professional piece-worker. ❋ Hartley Withers (1908)

After a Sunday of rest I arrive somewhat ahead of time on Monday morning, which leaves me a few moments for conversation with a piece-worker who is pasting labels on mustard jars. ❋ John Van Vorst (1900)

I was eager to begin, but was forced to wait before idle tools till work was given me -- hard ordeal for ambitious piece-worker. ❋ John Van Vorst (1900)

The publisher is not a piece-worker; he has to keep a large organization going, involving ramifications in every town. ❋ Israel Zangwill (1895)

Hence it is that, as a rule, the slave (§ 71, ff.) and socager work least willingly, the day laborer with less industry than the piece-worker, (240) who is at the same time more satisfied with himself, and gives most satisfaction to his master, (241) since he acquires more both for himself and for his master. ❋ Wilhelm Roscher (1855)

"stitch away their lives for twenty-five cents a day" as a seamstress or piece-worker. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"In recompense for these long hours of standing, the piece-worker often has fairly high payment financially. ❋ Edith Wyatt (1915)

“A typical case is that of a girl of sixteen, a piece-worker; she earns ❋ Besant, Annie (1893)