How to Use piecework in a Sentence

piecework

noun

• Her mother took in piecework to turn out on a sewing machine.
  — Bonnie L. Cook, Philly.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• The obvious move was to shift workers from day work—pay by day—to piecework, or pay by ton loaded.
  — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
• New in America, her mother did piecework and then ran a sewing factory.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2021
• In the Age of Information, though, piecework need not be menial or low-paid.
  — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 20 June 2021
• His mother was a homemaker and seamstress who took in piecework to help support the family.
  — Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• They get paid by piecework instead of the hour and receive a year-end bonus reflecting each worker’s performance.
  — Joseph Abrams, Fortune, 24 July 2023
• To try to fill the hole in their budget, Bautista did piecework, embroidering and sewing sequins on dresses.
  — Elizabeth Weil, ProPublica, 22 Aug. 2021
• The women soldered piecework for electronics in two different plants.
  — Jill Neimark, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2013
• My father worked in a raincoat factory, doing piecework from 7 in the morning until midnight.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2017
• Their work belongs to a grim history of women in outsourced roles stretching back to the piecework manufacturing era.
  — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 23 July 2021
• His mother, Virginia (Gallina) Bisoglio, did piecework sewing.
  — New York Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• And professions made up of freelancers stringing together piecework may find themselves in serious trouble.
  — David Karpf, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2022
• Thousands of lower-rung illustrators do grueling piecework for as little as $200 a month.
  — New York Times, 24 Feb. 2021
• Donato later got into piecework, creating cinder building blocks — back-breaking work.
  — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 20 Nov. 2020
• Tactile experiences can also be created to be portable or be developed as piecework.
  — Wired, 22 July 2022
• His customers encouraged him to drop the project piecework and offer the software, which delivers mapping and data analytics, instead.
  — Fortune, 26 Oct. 2021
• Rosa had secured a job at the Stockton Sewing Company doing piecework and Raymond was barbering again.
  — Jeanne Theoharis, The Root, 7 Sep. 2017
• Workers agree to let Lincoln change their working hours according to demand and pay by piecework rather than by hour in exchange for the company promising not to fire anyone for lack of business.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 20 July 2023
• In the preindustrial world, piecework systems for industries like textile manufacturing made the homestead the center of much working-class labor as well.
  — Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
• In the stack of military uniforms piled in a corner and waiting to be mended, Khoury opens a window on the mindless piecework an urbane woman such as Afiya must undertake.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
• Digital labour platforms tend to use self-employment contracts and piecework systems, which result in insecurity, exploitation, and wage theft.
  — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
• In industrializing countries, for example, remote piecework became popular for menial tasks, such as sewing buttons on cards, or filling matchboxes.
  — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 20 June 2021
• Around this time, a society of compositors also negotiated a piecework scale of wages in London, England, in 1785.
  — Errol Salamon, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Mar. 2026
• When Maine’s economy suffered from the oil crisis in the Seventies, and my father’s wages stalled, my mother picked apples, did piecework for Bass shoes, and worked as a school secretary to supplement their income.
  — Kerri Arsenault, The New York Review of Books, 1 Sep. 2020
• Labor advocates point to new measures taking effect in January to toughen enforcement of workplace health and safety rules, outlaw piecework in the garment industry and rein in unsafe speed quotas at warehouses.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2021
• Incentive programs - like piecework pay for factory workers, stock options for top executives and commissions for salespeople - don’t tend to produce lasting changes in people’s behavior, Kohn argued.
  — Taylor Telford, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Nov. 2022
• Data labeling is generally poorly paid, and performed as digital piecework, but Samasource says workers receive opportunities for advancement and a living wage that in East Africa is more than 40 percent above local minimum wage.
  — Tom Simonite, Wired, 19 May 2020