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
All of them are officials of the church....Now go there and preach a red hot sermon about the proletariat.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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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
From proletariats in their own persons they have become men of substance and property.
From About Ireland by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
He will endure when aristocracies crack and proletariats crumble.
From Huntingtower by John Buchan
With that, Moscow ceased to inspire the grand international solidarity of proletariats.
From Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 by Stephen Graham
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
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