Proletarianization

Quick meaning: Proletarianization is a noun meaning The act or process of making somebody or something proletarian.

Meaning

The act or process of making somebody or something proletarian.

Example Sentences

[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.

[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.

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.

Word Forms

• proletarianizations
• proletarianisation
• proletarization

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include proletarization, proletarianism, protoproletariat, subproletariat, proletariat, peasantization.

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