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piece work

employment system where the worker is paid according to the number of units produced
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piece work

Summary

piece work ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (60 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • piece work is a type of employment[2].
  • piece work is a type of bounty[3].
  • piece work is the opposite of wage[4].
  • piece work's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[5].
  • piece work's described by source is recorded as Pax Leksikon[6].
  • piece work's has characteristic is recorded as piece[7].
  • piece work's different from is recorded as Akord[8].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include employment[2] and bounty[3]. piece work is the opposite of wage[4].

Why It Matters

piece work ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (60 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). piece work. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/piece-work
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_piece-work_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{piece work}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/piece-work}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Akord
    Subclass of → employment, bounty
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 19155, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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