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
"The Filipino proletariat and toiling people grieve the death of their teacher and guiding light," the party said in a statement on its website.
From Reuters • Dec. 17, 2022
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
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