proletariats
Wage-earning social strata
Proletariats is the plural of proletariat, the working class—specifically, those who labor for wages rather than owning the means of production.
The term is central to Marxist theory, where the proletariat stands opposite the bourgeoisie.
Multiple proletariats might refer to working classes across different nations or historical periods: The proletariats of Europe faced similar conditions during industrialization.
People doing jobs
- laborersWorkers doing physical tasks
- massesBulk or populace
- working classManual laborers collectively
- factoriesIndustrial production facilities
unions · wages · toil · industrial · blue-collar · employment · workforce · strikes
Capitalist ownership class
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- means of productionTools and facilities for manufacturing
- exploitationSelfish use of others
revolution · workers · surplus value · dialectic · communism · alienation · wage labor · class consciousness
Low-ranking agricultural workers
- campesinosSpanish term for farmers
- favelasBrazilian informal settlements
- sweatshopsExploitative manufacturing facilities
- migrant workersPeople moving for jobs
maquiladoras · globalization · outsourcing · coolies · slums · garment workers · plantation labor · indentured
Feudal bound laborers
- industrial revolutionRapid economic mechanization period
- ManchesterLarge English industrial city
- EngelsGerman socialist theorist
- factoriesIndustrial production facilities
tenements · child labor · workhouses · trade guilds · enclosure · urbanization · coal mines · textile mills
workers
People doing jobs
- laborersWorkers doing physical tasks
- massesBulk or populace
- working classManual laborers collectively
factories · unions · wages · toil · industrial · blue-collar · employment · workforce · strikes · collective bargaining
bourgeoisie
Capitalist ownership class
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- means of productionTools and facilities for manufacturing
exploitation · revolution · workers · surplus value · dialectic · communism · alienation · wage labor · class consciousness · oppression
peasants
Low-ranking agricultural workers
- campesinosSpanish term for farmers
- favelasBrazilian informal settlements
- sweatshopsExploitative manufacturing facilities
migrant workers · maquiladoras · globalization · outsourcing · coolies · slums · garment workers · plantation labor · indentured · precariat
serfs
Feudal bound laborers
- industrial revolutionRapid economic mechanization period
- ManchesterLarge English industrial city
- EngelsGerman socialist theorist
factories · tenements · child labor · workhouses · trade guilds · enclosure · urbanization · coal mines · textile mills · Luddites
proletariatsbourgeoisie
Capitalist ownership class
capitalists · ruling class · elites · aristocracy · plutocracy
proletariatsruling class
Dominant governing stratum
elites · aristocracy · nobility · patricians · establishment
proletariatsruling class
Dominant governing stratum
technocrats · mandarins · oligarchs · plutocrats · kleptocrats
- the proletariatWage-earning labor class
- proletarian revolutionWorkers overthrowing the ruling class
- dictatorship of the proletariatLaboring class governing authority