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
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
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
After spending so much time living with the proletariat in the hospital where he worked, he had lost his reason.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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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
He will endure when aristocracies crack and proletariats crumble.
From Huntingtower by Buchan, John
Always was; but, since he’s joined the proletariats in America, he’s stark, staring mad.
From The Later Life by Couperus, Louis
The proletariats, headed by the students, had sacked the arsenal, the troops having made but slight resistance.
From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Coke, Henry J. (Henry John)
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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