What is "chargehand"

Usage examples of "chargehand".

Later, after two trade union officials had arrived at the Bethnal Green factory, Misses Mavis Percy, the chargehand of the first-floor workshop of machinists and seamstresses, came to see Tommy.

He thought his reliable first-floor chargehand looked as cross as if her bosom itself had been poked.

Brother Tommy was manager of the factory, Gertie the long-serving chargehand who had worked in East End sweatshops as a girl and spent twenty-four years in the civilized conditions estab lished by Sammy, Tommy and Boots.

Gertie Roper, chargehand and faithful servant before the Second World War, all through the war and now post-war I was getting on a bit, butjumped about like a two year ld at the prospect of the factory turning out nylon stockings.