proletarianization means the act or process of making somebody or something proletarian. It carries an Arena rating of 1029, earned across 12 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, proletarianization ranks #742 of 17,138 for Most Incisive Words, #1,015 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #5,984 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #6,459 of 17,131 for Scariest Words.
proletarianization is pronounced /ˌpɹəʊ.lɪˌtɛː.ɹɪ.ə.naɪˈzeɪ.ʃn̩/.
Why “proletarianization” is a great word
Proletarianization is the structural process of transforming individuals or groups into the proletariat, a class of wage laborers who must sell their labor power to survive. From proletarianize (from proletarian, from Latin proletarius ("citizen of the lowest class") + -ize) + -ation (suffix indicating the result of an action or process). First recorded in use 1885–90. Unlike "embourgeoisement," which describes an ascent into middle-class comfort and values, or the vague "degradation," a general decline in status, proletarianization is the specific, economic descent into dependency. It is the farmer losing his land to debt and taking a factory ticket, the artisan whose workshop is rendered obsolete by the machine, and the clerk whose salaried position dissolves into a gig—the great, silent migration from a world of things made to a world of hours sold.
Etymology
From proletarianize + -ation (suffix indicating the result of an action or process).
noun
- The act or process of making somebody or something proletarian.
- The act or process of making somebody or something proletarian.; The social process whereby people move from being either employers, unemployed, or self-employed to being employed as wage labour by employers.
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