proletarianization

Noun

proletarianization (countable and uncountable, plural proletarianizations)

1. (British, English, Oxford, US) The act or process of making somebody or something proletarian.
   • [H]e would have found if he had lived for another half-century, and can be credited for foreseeing in 1906, such a disintegration and proletarianisation of society as he understood it as to transform it into a mob, and such a weakening of the national will as to leave it purposeless and helpless.1959, W. L. Burn, “The Conservative Tradition and Its Reformulations”, in Morris Ginsberg, editor, Law and Opinion in England in the Twentieth Century, Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.: University of...
   • [Alice Crolley] Browning and [Fern] Gayden's commitment to publishing work by both black and white working-class and novice writers constituted one of the first commercial proletarianizations of African-American literature in the city's—and the country's—history.1999, Bill V. Mullen, “Worker-writers in Bronzeville”, in Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935–46, Urbana; Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 117
   1. (British, English, Marxism, Oxford, US) The social process whereby people move from being either employers, unemployed, or self-employed to being employed as wage labour by employers.
      • For this is clear: the whole reason for the existence of socialistic agitation, as it is to-day attempted, with the cry of a "need of nature" in the economic development, falls to the ground in the moment when this economic development does not lead to the proletarianisation of the masses and to...1898, Werner Sombart, “Tendencies of the Present”, in Anson P. Atterbury, transl., Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century […], New York, N.Y.; London: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons...
      • Whether the proletarianization of the masses continues or not, whether [Karl] Marx's theory of value is exact or not, these and other related questions, while of the greatest importance, do not interest him [Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk] as a philosopher.1907, Antonio Labriola, “Concerning the Crisis of Marxism”, in Ernest Untermann, transl., Socialism and Philosophy […] (International Library of Social Science), Chicago, Ill.: Charles H[ope] Kerr &...