(alsostock jobber)apersonorcompanythatbuyslargequantitiesofgoodstosellto othercompaniesordirectlyto thepublic:Thewholesalejobber'scompanysuppliesindependents in sixcounties.(Definition ofjobberfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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jobberThis essay first delineates some of the leading themes in the discourse about thejobber.From theCambridge English CorpusIn the old days thejobberwas responsible for obtaining labour.From theCambridge English CorpusHowever, this did not mean that the strikers had readily accepted the jobbers' authority to speak on their behalf.From theCambridge English CorpusThe leftist trade unions were vehemently critical of thejobber.From theCambridge English CorpusDuring the 1920s, as trade unions struggled to form, jobbers often played a significant role in them.From theCambridge English CorpusThe jobbers toured the neighbourhoods and tried to gather the needed extra hands.From theCambridge English CorpusThe head jobbers now 'promptly attempted to engage fresh hands'.From theCambridge English CorpusIn any case, the relationship between the linejobberand the weavers, in particular, grew increasingly fractious.From theCambridge English CorpusThe maintenance of the jobber's position depended upon striking the right balance between the imperatives of management and workers.From theCambridge English CorpusThe relationship between jobbers and workers was marked not only by reciprocity but also by tension, conflict and antagonism.From theCambridge English CorpusThe sustained militancy of the workers, co-ordinated across the industry as a whole, had revealed the limitations of the jobber's power to discipline labour.From theCambridge English CorpusOn the other hand, jobbers had to remain responsive to the needs and demands of the workers.From theCambridge English CorpusDuring the war, managerial demands upon thejobberincreased both to drive workers harder and to reconcile them to falling real wages.From theCambridge English CorpusThese agents, in turn, sought out clients and followers in the mills largely with the assistance of the jobbers.From theCambridge English CorpusAs the jobbers were subjected to greater pressure by their rivals and their clients in the neighbourhood, they were rendered more vulnerable in the workplace.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/jobber##
