semi-proletariat
See also: semiproletariat
English
Noun
semi-proletariat (countable and uncountable, plural semi-proletariats)
- 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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