All 14 Uses of
foreman
in
The Jungle by Sinclair
- Here was Durham's, for instance, owned by a man who was trying to make as much money out of it as he could, and did not care in the least how he did it; and underneath him, ranged in ranks and grades like an army, were managers and superintendents and foremen, each one driving the man next below him and trying to squeeze out of him as much work as possible.†
Chpt 5
- All that day he stood at his lard machine, rocking unsteadily, his eyes closing in spite of him; and he all but lost his place even so, for the foreman booted him twice to waken him.†
Chpt 7
- It needed more than the permission of the doctor, however, for when he showed up on the killing floor of Brown's, he was told by the foreman that it had not been possible to keep his job for him.†
Chpt 12
- Jurgis knew that this meant simply that the foreman had found some one else to do the work as well and did not want to bother to make a change.†
Chpt 12
- He saw a foreman passing the open doorway, and hailed him for a job.†
Chpt 20
- The foreman came in shortly afterward, and when he saw Jurgis he frowned.†
Chpt 20
- His knees nearly gave way beneath him when the foreman, after looking him over and questioning him, told him that he could find an opening for him.†
Chpt 20
- Jurgis clung to his guide like a scared child to its nurse, and while the latter hailed one foreman after another to ask if they could use another unskilled man, he stared about him and marveled.
Chpt 21 *foreman = someone who is in charge of other workers
- I got into a quarrel with a foreman—not my own boss, sir—and struck him.†
Chpt 25
- The men had left a long line of hogs in various stages of preparation, and the foreman was directing the feeble efforts of a score or two of clerks and stenographers and office boys to finish up the job and get them into the chilling rooms.†
Chpt 26
- Some of the foremen were union members, and many who were not had gone out with the men.†
Chpt 26
- To which the superintendent replied that he might safely trust Durham's for that—they proposed to teach these unions a lesson, and most of all those foremen who had gone back on them.†
Chpt 26
- He's a foreman in Brown's or used to be.†
Chpt 26
- He did not add that he had paid three hundred dollars, and a foreman's job, for the satisfaction of knocking down "Phil" Connor a second time.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(foreman) a person who is in charge of other workers
or:
a juror in a court case who is selected by other jurors to head the jury