0 a person or company that buys large quantities of goods to sell to other companies or directly to the public: --
As the jobbers were subjected to greater pressure by their rivals and their clients in the neighbourhood, they were rendered more vulnerable in the workplace.
These agents, in turn, sought out clients and followers in the mills largely with the assistance of the jobbers.
During the war, managerial demands upon the jobber increased both to drive workers harder and to reconcile them to falling real wages.
On the other hand, jobbers had to remain responsive to the needs and demands of the workers.
The 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.
The relationship between jobbers and workers was marked not only by reciprocity but also by tension, conflict and antagonism.
The maintenance of the jobber's position depended upon striking the right balance between the imperatives of management and workers.
In any case, the relationship between the line jobber and the weavers, in particular, grew increasingly fractious.
