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US
/ˌpɹoʊɫəˈtɛɹiət/
]
[ UK /pɹəʊltˈeəɹɪˌæt/ ]
[ UK /pɹəʊltˈeəɹɪˌæt/ ]
NOUN
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a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field
How To Use proletariat In A Sentence
- In the end, though, Smith was beginning to realise the futility of trying to liberate a proletariat that seemed quite content to remain unliberated.
- Not lords nor proletariats nor bishops nor husbands nor co-respondents nor virgins nor adultresses nor uncles nor noses. Touch and Go
- The main axis of stratification in capitalist societies is the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
- The proletariat is also quite good at convincing each other that communism is a good idea. Animal Farm Character Profiles
- By mid-century, the Marxist sociologist C. Wright Mills could write persuasively…of American office and store workers as a new proletariat, no less regimented, poorly paid, and declassed than manual workers of the previous century.
- In addition, the rural population is sometimes seen as a specific class in Marx's historical writings, as is the Lumpenproletariat (“dregs of society”), so that we obtain an image of society, which, far from the usual dichotomic or trichotomic image, is differentiated into several strata with multiple interests. CLASS
- Later, the importance of the proletariat is shown when Boxer suddenly falls and there is suddenly a drastic decrease in work productivity. Animal Farm Character Profiles
- So even as they mutter racist slogans, members of Siberia's Lumpenproletariat benefit from proximity to the dragon.
- Lenin proposed that the new regime would be a ‘democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry.’
- All culture is inevitably affiliated to one of two fundamental classes: bourgeoisie or proletariat.