Pieceworker

Also une pigiste = pieceworker, typesetter, freelance journalist who is paid by the line ❋ Kristin Espinasse (2007)

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. ❋ Edward Francis Adams (N/A)

The manager's term of employment is longer, but the professional pieceworker, such as I am when I write this article, has usually no contracted term, and is only paid for actual work done. ❋ Hartley Withers (1908)

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. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Scientifically speaking, the author is a pieceworker, whose productiveness is fitful and temporary. ❋ Israel Zangwill (1895)