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- Dictionaryproletariat/ˌprəʊlɪˈtɛːrɪət/
noun
- 1. working-class people regarded collectively (often used with reference to Marxism): "the growth of the industrial proletariat"
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The proletariat (/ ˌ p r oʊ l ɪ ˈ t ɛər i ə t /; from Latin proletarius 'producing offspring') is the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose only possession of significant economic value is their labour power (their capacity to work).
The meaning of PROLETARIAT is the laboring class; especially : the class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to live.
PROLETARIAT definition: 1. the class of people who do unskilled jobs in industry and own little or no property: 2. the…. Learn more.
the class of people who do unskilled jobs in industry and own little or no property: The power of the proletariat had become too formidable. Industrialism had created a proletariat in Russia. Compare. aristocracy. bourgeoisie. Fewer examples. In the economic field, capitalism is on the offensive against the proletariat.
Proletariat definition: in Marxist theory, the class made up of workers, especially industrial wage earners, who do not possess capital or property and must sell their labor to those who do in order to survive. See examples of PROLETARIAT used in a sentence.
proletariat, the lowest or one of the lowest economic and social classes in a society. In ancient Rome the proletariat consisted of the poor landless freemen. It included artisans and small tradesmen who had been gradually impoverished by the extension of slavery.
Proletariat is an old term for the working class. It was commonly used by Marxists and other people who believed that capitalism had created a class of workers who were exploited by company owners. They called those owners "the bourgeoisie."
