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Straw Boss

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Straw Boss
A member of a work crew who supervises the crew in addition to performing normal duties alongside them.
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The straw boss pays them and the poor sucker that got picked up gets dumped back on the street with no money.
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She had worked as a straw boss at Ellison's bean fields in Pleasant Hill.
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His right-hand man with the working people is his straw boss, a young, honest and hard-working Italian (Claudio Amendola), who's nicknamed ``Nostromo,'' which means ``our man,'' a term that ultimately becomes humiliating to the ambitious young man because it suggests the foreigners own him, body and soul.
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