Piece master

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the master craftsmen were referred to as master craftsmen who paid their journeymen for work according to the finished pieces, for example in men's clothing , and who were also paid that way. It is a variant of piece work and a partial aspect of the intensification of work processes through the industrial revolution .

In the early modern period , piece master was the name for a gun master who commanded the operation of one or more cannons . In the Imperial Navy it was the name for a sergeant's rank who was the gun leader of a heavy ship's gun on ships of the line and large cruisers .

literature

• Richard Wagner: History of the clothes workers in Austria in the 19th century and in the first quarter of the 20th century . Publishing Union of Austrian Dressmakers (Association of Austrian Tailors), Vienna 1930
• Piece master . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 19, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1909, p.  141 .
• Piece master . In: Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon . 5th edition. Volume 2, F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1911, p.  782 .
• Piece master , m . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 20 : Strom – Szische - (X, 4th section). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1942 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).