semi-proletariat

See also: semiproletariat

English

Noun

semi-proletariat (countable and uncountable, plural semi-proletariats)

  1. Alternative form of semiproletariat
    • 1997, Volker Perthes, The Political Economy of Syria Under Asad, →ISBN, page 100:
      The numerical strength of the semi-proletariat is even more difficult to assess than that of other social strata; being underestimated and hardly identifiable in official statistics is itself a feature of social marginality.
    • 1998, Jeffery M. Paige, Coffee and Power, →ISBN:
      In comparison to the pattern of class relations in the 1920-1950 period outlined in Figure 1, the most notable change is the rise of the agro-industrial elite to preeminence everywhere except Guatemala, and the creation of a semi-proletariat particularly in El Salvador and Nicaragua.
    • 2010, Sudeep Chakravarti, Red Sun: Travels in Naxalite Country, →ISBN, page 396:
      The semi-proletariat, living in extremely poor conditions, is the urban class with the greatest potential for unity with the proletariat.
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