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proletarianization n (American spelling, Oxford British English)

The act or process of making somebody or something proletarian. (Marxism) The social process whereby people move from being either employers, unemployed, or self-employed to being employed as wage labour by employers. The first volume of Das Kapital (Capital) by Karl Marx was published on this day in 1867. It was the only volume of the work to appear during his lifetime.

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