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proletarianisation en · NOUN

Etymology

From proletarianise + -ation (suffix indicating the result of an action or process).

Meanings

1. (UK, alt-of, countable, nonstandard, uncountable) Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of proletarianization.
   alt of proletarianization
   • As the countryside became more rural and de-industrialised with the decline of rural industry, peasant women experienced a process which could not unfairly be described as proletarianisation. 2000, James F[rancis] McMillan, France and Women 1789–1914: Gender, Society and Politics, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 165:
   • For this is clear: the whole reason for the existence of socialistic agitation, as it is to-day attempted, with the cry of a "need of nature" in the economic development, falls to the ground in the moment when this economic development does not lead to the proletarianisation of the masses and to the communisation of the processes of production—to mercantile operations on a large scale. 1898, Werner Sombart, “Tendencies of the Present”, in Anson P. Atterbury, transl., Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century […], New York, N.Y.; London: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons […], →OCLC, pages 155–156:
   • [T]he mining project set in motion a process of proletarianisation, whereby the indigenous people of Soroako (the orang asli Soroako) became incorporated into a system of social relations organised around the appropriation of the means of production by a single class that exploits the labour of a nonpropertied class. 1986, Kathryn May Robinson, “Conclusion”, in Stepchildren of Progress: The Political Economy of Development in an Indonesian Mining Town (SUNY Series in the Anthropology of Work), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 287:
   • Developments such as this give much more credence to critical analysis of the teaching profession which suggests that it is undergoing a process of proletarianisation in an ideological climate hostile to the interests of state school teachers. 1991, Gerald Grace, “The State and the Teachers: Problems in Teacher Supply, Retention and Morale”, in Gerald Grace, Martin Lawn, editors, Teacher Supply and Teacher Quality: Issues for the 1990s, Clevedon, Avon; Bristol, Pa.: Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 8:
   • Pereira (2016) speaks of performativity schemes designed to monitor individual and institutional performance which according to Burrows (2012) are based on metrics and ranking structures that enable and legitimise a "quantified control" (Burrows (2012) in Pereira (2016), p. 100) of the different types of academic work, throwing many research activities, including publication, into contexts of new proletarianisations. 2018, Amélia Augusto, Caterina Sales Oliveira, Emília Araújo, Carla Cerqueira, “The Place for Gender Research in Contemporary Portuguese Science and Higher Education Policies within the Context of Neo-liberalism”, in Heike Kahlert, editor, Gender Studies and the New Academic Governance: Global Challenges, Global Dynamics and Local Impacts, Wiesbaden: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, part II (Interactions: Gender Research, Academic Feminism and Society), page 110:
   • [H]e would have found if he had lived for another half-century, and can be credited for foreseeing in 1906, such a disintegration and proletarianisation of society as he understood it as to transform it into a mob, and such a weakening of the national will as to leave it purposeless and helpless. 1959, W. L. Burn, “The Conservative Tradition and Its Reformulations=”, in Morris Ginsberg, editor, Law and Opinion in England in the Twentieth Century, Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, →OCLC, pages 42–43:

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