proletarianized

Proletarianized describes something that has been reduced to working-class status or conditions.

The term comes from Marxist analysis, where the proletariat are wage laborers who don't own the means of production.

A proletarianized workforce has lost autonomy or ownership: Teachers have become proletarianized, stripped of professional control over their work.

The process often implies degradation—skilled craftsmen proletarianized into factory hands, professionals turned into interchangeable employees.