piece workers
Paid by unit
Piece workers are laborers paid by the unit of work completed rather than by the hour.
The system ties wages directly to output—a garment worker paid per shirt sewn, a farm laborer per bushel picked.
Piece work can incentivize speed but often comes at the cost of quality or worker wellbeing: The piece workers rushed to meet quota.
- pieceworkPay per unit produced
- garmentArticle of clothing
- garment districtUrban area for clothing production
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- assembly lineSequential workstation manufacturing
sewing · sewing machine · quota · wages · minimum wage · sweatshop · fast fashion · seamstress · assembly · hands · needles · bundles · by the dozen · tally · hustle · machines · overtime · stitch
- garment workersseamstresses, tailors, sewers, cutters, stitchers
piece workerssalaried employees
Workers receiving fixed regular pay
salaried workers · wage earners · hourly workers · nine-to-fivers · day laborers
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