Meaning of semiproletariat | Babel Free

Definitions

The class of marginalized workers who lack regular employment, such as working peasants, pedlars, small handicrafts makers, and the underemployed.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“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 hold⟳ the semiproletariat firmly in check - indeed to expropriate some or all of its land⟳ resources.”

“This is because the rural semiproletariat are not so stubborn in clinging to the system of private ownership of the means of production [vested] is small[-scale] peasant holdings, and they are people who will accept⟳ socialist transformation more easily.”

“The semiproletariat consisted of those who did manual labor for one or more masters and who surrendered their surplus product either as rent⟳ or as surplus value to their employers.”

“In this contradictory process⟳, the class balances within the nationalist alliance would also begin⟳ to shift against the semiproletariat.”

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