verb
- to cause (a person or group) to become part of the working class or proletariat; to reduce to the status of a wage laborer
Usage: British spelling (American: proletarianizes); third-person singular present tense; formal, political, or academic usage
Examples
- Industrial automation proletarianises skilled craftspeople by converting them into factory workers.
- The economist argued that globalization proletarianises the middle class in developed nations.
- Colonial policies proletarianised indigenous populations, forcing them into wage labor.
- Modern gig economy platforms proletarianise independent contractors by controlling their work conditions.
- The sociologist examined how technological change proletarianises professional workers.