proletarianization

plural proletarianizations · alternative proletarianisation · alternative proletarization

1. BritishEnglishOxfordUScountableuncountableThe act or process of making somebody or something proletarian.

   [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.

   1999, Bill V. Mullen, “Worker-writers in Bronzeville”, in Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935–46, Urbana; Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 117

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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.

   1959, W. L. Burn, “The Conservative Tradition and Its Reformulations”, in Morris Ginsberg, editor, Law and Opinion in England in the Twentieth Century, Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, →OCLC, pages 42–43

   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.

   2018, Amélia Augusto, Caterina Sales Oliveira, Emília Araújo, Carla Cerqueira, “The Place for Gender Research in Contemporary Portuguese Science and Higher Education Policies within the Context of Neo-liberalism”, in Heike Kahlert, editor, Gender Studies and the New Academic Governance: Global Challenges, Global Dynamics and Local Impacts, Wiesbaden: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, part II (Interactions: Gender Research, Academic Feminism and Society), page 110

   1. BritishEnglishMarxismOxfordUScountableuncountableThe social process whereby people move from being either employers, unemployed, or self-employed to being employed as wage labour by employers.

      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.

      1958, The New Republic, volume 138, New York, N.Y.: The Republic Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14

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      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.

      1898, Werner Sombart, “Tendencies of the Present”, in Anson P. Atterbury, transl., Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century […], New York, N.Y.; London: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons […], →OCLC, pages 155–156

      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.

      1907, Antonio Labriola, “Concerning the Crisis of Marxism”, in Ernest Untermann, transl., Socialism and Philosophy […] (International Library of Social Science), Chicago, Ill.: Charles H[ope] Kerr & Company, →OCLC, page 203

      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.

      1913, Gregor Alexinsky [i.e., Grigory Aleksinsky], “Rural Economy and the Agrarian Question”, in Bernard Miall, transl., Modern Russia, London; Leipzig: T[homas] Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, book II (The Modern Period), section IV, pages 152–153

      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.

      1980 January, Magali Sarfatti Larson, “Proletarianization and Educated Labor”, in Theory and Society: Renewal and Critique in Social Theory, volume 9, number 1, Amsterdam; London: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 139

      [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.

      1986, Kathryn May Robinson, “Conclusion”, in Stepchildren of Progress: The Political Economy of Development in an Indonesian Mining Town (SUNY Series in the Anthropology of Work), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 287

      Synonyms: proletarization · Antonyms: bourgeoisification, embourgeoisement