JOBS in Classic Quotes

1  Jokubas had never tried it, but he expressed a certainty that he could get some of his friends a job through this man.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

2  The last time, too, he lost his job, and that meant six weeks more of standing at the doors of the packing houses, at six o'clock on bitter winter mornings, with a foot of snow on the ground and more in the air.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

3  Marija had nothing to take with her save her two brawny arms and the word "job," laboriously learned; but with these she had marched about Packingtown all day, entering every door where there were signs of activity.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

4  Brother Jonas had gotten his job, and was pushing a truck in Durham's; and the killing gang at Brown's continued to work early and late, so that Jurgis grew more confident every hour, more certain of his mastership.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

5  Jurgis asked them what they meant by their rights, a question in which he was quite sincere, for he had not any idea of any rights that he had, except the right to hunt for a job, and do as he was told when he got it.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

6  Jonas had been to have an interview with the special policeman to whom Szedvilas had introduced him, and had been taken to see several of the bosses, with the result that one had promised him a job the beginning of the next week.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4