piecework; paid manual work
Refers to work paid by the piece or task, often manual or home-based labor. Common in contexts like sewing, assembly, or simple processing jobs.
My mother does sewing as piecework at home.
In this area, piecework as a side job still exists.
出来高払い is a broader term for payment by results or output, not limited to manual labor, while 賃仕事 specifically implies manual piecework.
Compound of 賃 (chin, 'wages') and 仕事 (shigoto, 'work'). The reading ちんしごと follows standard on-kun compounding.