0 a person or company that buys large quantities of goods to sell to other companies or directly to the public:
This essay first delineates some of the leading themes in the discourse about the jobber.
In the old days the jobber was responsible for obtaining labour.
However, this did not mean that the strikers had readily accepted the jobbers' authority to speak on their behalf.
The leftist trade unions were vehemently critical of the jobber.
During the 1920s, as trade unions struggled to form, jobbers often played a significant role in them.
The jobbers toured the neighbourhoods and tried to gather the needed extra hands.
The head jobbers now 'promptly attempted to engage fresh hands'.
In any case, the relationship between the line jobber and the weavers, in particular, grew increasingly fractious.
