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semi-proletariat

semi-proletariat is the alternative form of semiproletariat.

Meaning of semiproletariat

Noun

semiproletariat (countable and uncountable, plural semiproletariats)

  1. The class of marginalized workers who lack regular employment, such as working peasants, pedlars, small handicrafts makers, and the underemployed.
    • To obtain such a cost differential they must either be able to hold back the proletariat's demands for real wage increases, using segments of the semiproletariat as 'strike breakers', or if they transfer a portion of the advantage to the proletariat they must obtain the asisistance of this group to...1979, Immanuel Wallerstein, The Capitalist World-Economy, →ISBN, page 107

Forms of semi-proletariat

pluralsemi-proletariats

Questions about semi-proletariat

What is semi-proletariat the alternative form of?
Semi-proletariat is the alternative form of semiproletariat.

Words near semi-proletariat in the dictionary

  1. semi-presidential
  2. semi-pro
  3. semi-professional
  4. semi-professionals
  5. semi-profile
  6. semi-proletariat
  7. semi-proletariats
  8. semi-pros
  9. semi-protected
  10. semi-quote
  11. semi-quoted

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