the proletariat

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Ylfa’s sauce enthusiasm addresses class disparity, the suppression of the proletariat, egomania and how food can unite people and tear them apart.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025

In his view, employers paid wages to their workers, also known as the proletariat, that were far less than their labor was worth.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Therefore, they sought to prepare the proletariat for its “historic mission” of achieving a socialist society, Hudson said: “It was decided that chess would be one of the ways to do this.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2022

The aerospace suburbs had “managed to increase the proletariat and simultaneously, by calling it middle-class, to co-opt it,” Didion wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2021

And the Ministry had not only to supply the multifarious needs of the Party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower level for the benefit of the proletariat.

From "1984" by George Orwell