Employment system where the worker is paid according to the number of units produced.
1 The whole family sewed buttons on cards at night at slave labor piece rates .
2 Three fourths of these workers are paid piece rates .
3 After a winter of forcing skeletons to work for piece rates , the destitute are now to be given soup.
4 They said that on former piece rates this man used to make from ninety dollars to one hundred dollars a week.
5 More than 2,040 barristers who carry out prosecution work in England and Wales responded, virtually all of those working on piece rates for the CPS.
6 Wages, fair, 82, 153,~ cOrAmiFsions, 143; piece rates for, i5o; maximum, 152; sums paid in, 153; value, 241; little or no, Wanamaker, John, 271.
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