Definition of proletariat Proletariat

/pɹowˌlʌtɛˈɹiʌt/ - [prowlutereeut] - pro•le•tar•i•at

We found 8 definitions of proletariat from 6 different sources.

What does proletariat mean?

Noun
proletariat - a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
		labor, labour, working class
		social class, socio-economic class, stratum, class one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)
		labor force, labor pool the source of trained people from which workers can be hired
		lumpenproletariat (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement
		organized labor employees who are represented by a labor union

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proletariat (Noun)
The working class or lower class.
proletariat (Noun)
The wage earner s collectively, excluding salaried workers.
proletariat (Noun)
In ancient Rome, the lowest class of citizens, who had no property.

proletariat
A social class comprising those who do manual labour for wage, especially those who do not own any property.

A proletariat (often shortened, "prole" in slang) is a term commonly used by Communists,

to describe the class of workers in an urban area, who work in the service industry or the manufacturing industry. These urban workers are different from the peasants, who are workers who do farming jobs in rural areas.

The political way of thinking of Communism states that the proletariat should have a revolution and take over the means of production. They are often sarcastically referred to as "wage-slaves."