Meaning of Proletarianization | Babel Free

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1. The act or process of making somebody or something proletarian.
   British, English, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable
2. The social process whereby people move from being either employers, unemployed, or self-employed to being employed as wage labour by employers.
   British, English, Marxism, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable

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“[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.”

“[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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The representation of the Russian commune as a system that will save⟳ the population from proletarianization is equally false. According to the preceding chapters, we know⟳ that the progress⟳ of proletarianization in Russia has been extremely rapid, despite the existence of the commune.”

“But that is not the only alternative, except in the minds of latter-day Jacobins for whom the stratifications of the ancien régime are more real than the proletarianizations of their own⟳ time.”

“Beginning with the sale of labor power, proletarianization evolves through the various modes of organizing labor and extracting surplus value; the effects of proletarian subjection to alien authority change⟳, in turn⟳, the conditions in which labor power is sold and the social nature of the sellers.”

“[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.”

“There will have⟳ been enough 'cleaning-out' of unprofitable productive enterprises worldwide, enough elimination of accumulated rent⟳ situations, and enough innovations in the prospective new leading industries, plus enough restoration worldwide of global demand⟳ through a combination of new proletarianizations and in the increase⟳ in social benefits acquired as a result⟳ of the renewed class struggles, such that there will once again be an adequate basis for an expansionary momentum in the world-economy.”

“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.”

“[T]o refer⟳ to academic workers as being subject to proletarianization is not self-indulgent fantasy on our part; Marx and [Friedrich] Engels themselves noted that professional groups were subject to the proletarianization process⟳ and reduction to 'wage labour' [...]”

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