proletariat
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Even as employers complain about a dearth of qualified workers, a growing college-educated proletariat can’t find jobs they want to work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
Perhaps I had joined the ranks of the global internet proletariat, hammering clicks on the abstracted factory floor of the future?
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025
It’s not a proletariat hostel, but it’s in the right neighborhood.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025
Labour unions were central to the Communist Party's proletariat beginnings but play only a marginal role in modern authoritarian China.
From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2023
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
Once in power, Marius reformed the entrance requirements for the army to open it to proletariats, extending them the opportunity for war gains and even land for their service.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Snouck Hugronje plays you forget all about self-determination, syndicalism, guild-control, proletariats, sunspots and even Mr. SMILLIE.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 by Various
Not lords nor proletariats nor bishops nor husbands nor co-respondents nor virgins nor adultresses nor uncles nor noses.
From Touch and Go by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
We proletariats, plain and poor people, coming from the backyard of life, we must study and study, in order to come to the front, ahead of everybody.
From The Man Who Was Afraid by Herman Bernstein
We proletariats have grown up, but have neither appropriated any wisdom, nor brought light into life.
From The Man Who Was Afraid by Herman Bernstein
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