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1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1540/2 It might rather be performed by daieworkers and good ouerseers, than by great.

1711 Atlas Geographus I. xxviii. 852/1 Meat and Drink are generally dear..So that their Day-workers and Labourers could hardly live, were not their Wages advanc'd in Proportion.

1796 F. Burney Camilla I. ii. v. 229 They had both been day-workers in the field, till a fit of sickness had hindered the poor man from getting his livelihood.

1867 L. Levi Wages & Earnings Working Classes 140 Tools and implements are supplied to day-workers, but not to piece-workers.

1914 C. W. Terry Motor Body-building xl. 187 The system of providing each day worker with a book to book up his time is adhered to, but I should suggest that ordinary time sheets are simpler.

1966 Financial Times 5 Oct. 22/1 The report recommends a meeting between the company and representatives of all dayworkers to decide how the daywork wage structure could be reviewed.

2004 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 9 Dec. (The Guide section) 6 Each morning, dozens of dayworkers cluster along Depot Street and Main Avenue in Morgan Hill, waiting for an employer to pick them up for a job.

1802 in Rep. Soc. for bettering Condition of Poor (1804) IV. 15 The day-workers are employed twelve hours and a quarter in the mill, and have an interval of three quarters of an hour for dinner. The night-workers are all boys.

1842 Manch. Guardian 16 Apr. 3/3 There were under Wild two day workers and three night workers.

1908 St. Andrew's Cross Aug. 772/1 From five to twelve men sleep in a single room; in some cases the night shift takes the beds of the day-workers.

1989 T. M. Fraser Worker at Work vii. 114 The frequency of disturbed sleep is some 6–10 times higher for night workers than for day workers.

2001 W. Karwowski Internat. Encycl. Ergonomics (ed. 2) 2052/1 No one would think of phoning a day worker at 2 a.m., but few would have qualms about phoning a night worker at 2 p.m.