| To support their families, women would bring in piecework from garment factories, make paper flowers to sell, and take in boarders. |
| In a bid to encourage dentists to make immediate improvements, the new NHS paid them piecework fees. |
| Throughout the 19th century, they used piecework wages and inside subcontracting to control labor costs. |
| The dialogue, too, feels like piecework, as if the bons mots and ripostes have been assembled from a library of index cards. |
| Alternatively, they are contracted on a piecework basis paid 10 pesetas a kilo of broccoli. |
| Thus, Italian women supplemented the family income by taking in boarders and doing piecework alongside their daughters. |
