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 economic pain has been getting worse as people lose even the odd jobs and piecework that helped them pay bills.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 11 May 2020
• In the Age of Information, though, piecework need not be menial or low-paid.
  — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 20 June 2021
• To try to fill the hole in their budget, Bautista did piecework, embroidering and sewing sequins on dresses.
  — Elizabeth Weil, ProPublica, 22 Aug. 2021
• New in America, her mother did piecework and then ran a sewing factory.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 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
• 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
• 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
• His customers encouraged him to drop the project piecework and offer the software, which delivers mapping and data analytics, instead.
  — Fortune, 26 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Tactile experiences can also be created to be portable or be developed as piecework.
  — Wired, 22 July 2022
• Donato later got into piecework, creating cinder building blocks — back-breaking work.
  — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 20 Nov. 2020
• 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
• 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, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024