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foreman

an alternative term for SUPERVISOR used mainly in manufacturing organizations.

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Wintermyer provided its 30 foremen with laptops so that they can enter daily time card information into Heavy Job out in the field.

Pennsylvania contractor creates an exceptional workforce. (Capabilities Guide: Special Advertising Section)

This was the not-so-noble and not-so heroic manliness where men individually or collectively cursed, threatened, and fought with each other and with their shop foremen and supervisors.

Rough manhood: the aggressive and confrontational shop culture of U.S. auto workers during World War II

In an extraordinary piece of journalism, reporter Gardiner Harris supplemented the statistical analysis with interviews with foremen and workers who describe how the coal companies cheated on the dust sampling tests.

BLACK LUNG: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster

Now, he said, foremen are asked to be facilitators, coaches and mentors.

Investing in employees

But the author makes a convincing case that gender stereotypes more generally, and not just the narrow self-interest of craftsmen, proved decisive in inspiring industrialists, government officials, production engineers, and foremen to propagate a vision of rationalized production that trapped women in low-wage, low skilled jobs.

Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Division in the French and British Metalworking Industries, 1914-1939