A stitcher was paid a piecework wage. She was reared by her Irish Catholic mother, who sewed piecework at home. His mother worked hard sewing piecework at home. The company also paid freelancers to create pages for piecework compensation. These workers were paid on a piecework basis for the resulting lampwork beads. For instance, the straight piecework system pays employees based on each unit of their output. However, in 1852, it agreed a ban on overtime and piecework. The research involved manipulating length of rest and lunch periods and piecework payment plans. This was mostly done as domestic piecework. Two collections of his selected journalism have been published&colon; "Irrational Ravings" and "Piecework" (1996). This was followed by their first album as a duo, "Piecework", in 1998.