piecework

Their work belongs to a grim history of women in outsourced roles stretching back to the piecework manufacturing era.

The trend toward poorly compensated contract work—gig work, piecework, temporary work—is virtually ubiquitous.

This sort of peer-to-peer piecework could help bridge the gap between peak earnings years and full retirement.

In order to attain this improved efficiency the most important practical aid is piecework.

Piecework rates, irrespective of class of labour employed, should remain unaltered.

But while Marx thus objects to piecework because it leads to overwork, he objects to it also because it leads to underwork.

Among these expedients none is more strongly condemned by Marx than piecework, as encouraging over-exertion and overtime.

Dissipation and overtime generally go together, but neither of them is a necessary accompaniment of piecework.