Meaning of proletarianisation | Babel Free
Definitions
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of proletarianization.
UK, alt-of, countable, nonstandard, uncountable
Examples
“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 the communisation of the processes of production—to mercantile operations on a large scale.”
“[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.”
“[T]he mining project set⟳ in motion a process⟳ of proletarianisation, whereby the indigenous people of Soroako (the orang asli Soroako) became incorporated into a system of social relations organised around the appropriation of the means of production by a single class that exploits the labour of a nonpropertied class.”
“Developments such as this give⟳ much more credence to critical analysis of the teaching profession which suggests that it is undergoing a process⟳ of proletarianisation in an ideological climate hostile to the interests of state school teachers.”
“As the countryside became more rural and de-industrialised with the decline⟳ of rural industry, peasant women experienced a process⟳ which could not unfairly be described as proletarianisation.”
“Pereira (2016) speaks of performativity schemes designed to monitor⟳ individual and institutional performance which according to Burrows (2012) are based on metrics and ranking structures that enable and legitimise a "quantified control⟳" (Burrows (2012) in Pereira (2016), p. 100) of the different types of academic work⟳, throwing many research⟳ activities, including publication, into contexts of new proletarianisations.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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