outwork

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Outside the textile industry, most of the early industrial workforce was male, and more women probably toiled as outworkers in rural homes and urban tenements than as factory workers.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

The outworkers, many of whom were women and children, also commanded lower wages than skilled shoemakers, but shoe production rose, prices fell, and merchants increased their shipments over roads and canals.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

There are any number of outworkers to be had.”

From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various

The establishments visited in England generally perform all the operations of making and trimming hats in their own establishments, although at times "outworkers" are employed.

From Men's Sewed Straw Hats Report of the United Stated Tariff Commission to the President of the United States (1926) by Commission, United States Tariff