0 work for which the amount of pay depends on the number of things finished rather than on the time spent making them --
1 work for which the amount of pay depends on the number of items completed rather than the time spent making them --
2 work that is paid at a fixed rate based on the amount done rather than the time it takes to do the job: --
One of the deterrents was that the men refused to work piecework.
I have tried to get the men to agitate for a weekly wage and not to do the work by piecework.
Are they going to be paid on a piecework basis, as they were in the nineteenth century?
The great majority of dockers are on piecework.
He is capable of doing the piecework which craftsmen are doing in certain industries.
They are not like piecework prices which are fixed according to the best man or to the man of average ability.
In the motor industry they tell you that it is not soundly based if it is piecework; it has to be measured day work.
If you take again even the same workers on piecework, particularly homework, they will not earn the same amount each week.
