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What (who) is roundsman - definition

FORM OF ORGANISED LABOUR EXCHANGE

Roundsman

Roundsman

·noun A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.

roundsman

¦ noun (plural roundsmen)

1. Brit. a trader's employee who goes round delivering and taking orders.

2. US a police officer in charge of a patrol.

3. Austral. a journalist covering a specified subject.

Roundsman System

The Roundsman SystemPoor Law (sometimes termed the billet, or ticket, or item system), in the Elizabethan Poor Law (1601), was a form of organised labour exchange for the poorest labourers by which a parish vestry helped to pay local farmers, households and others to employ such applicants for relief at a rate of headline wages negotiated and set by the parish. It depended not on the services, but on the wants of the applicants: the employers being repaid out of the poor rate (local taxation) all they advanced in wages beyond a very low-wage amount.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundsman_System

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Roundsman System

The Roundsman System (sometimes termed the billet, or ticket, or item system), in the Elizabethan Poor Law (1601), was a form of organised labour exchange for the poorest labourers by which a parish vestry helped to pay local farmers, households and others to employ such applicants for relief at a rate of headline wages negotiated and set by the parish. It depended not on the services, but on the wants of the applicants: the employers being repaid out of the poor rate (local taxation) all they advanced in wages beyond a very low-wage amount. Variants of the Roundsman system operated and co-existed from parish-to-parish and sometimes depending on type of labour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundsman System

Examples of use of roundsman

1. The downside, which the roundsman, let‘s call him Oswald, ignores at his peril, is that this apple polishing does not endear him to his colleagues, a slovenly lot, mostly hung over from a terrific night at the Blue Parrot.

2. The roundsman is the guy who, with the class huddled at the bed of a patient who has developed a rash after taking penicillin, raises his hand to ask the professor –– obnoxious ingratiation is best expressed in the form of a question –– whether this might not instead be a case of Schmendrick‘s Syndrome reported in the latest issue of the Journal of Ridiculously Obscure Tropical Diseases.