proletarianize
proletarianise BrE

According to many Marxists then, the positions in the class structure occupied by most routine non-manual workers have been proletarianized.

Russian cultural heritage was under attack, churches were closed, old specialists were dismissed, and science and art were proletarianized.

In an early study of clerks from a neo-Weberian point of view, however, David Lockwood denied that clerks had been proletarianized.

But Marx thought that the white-collar workers would eventually become "proletarianized" because of the alienating division of office labor and the depreciation of their value through free public education.

Birthday cakes became more and more proletarianized as a result of the industrial revolution, as materials and tools became more advanced and more accessible.

"Mind over matter" was also Mao Zedong's idea that rural peasants could be "proletarianized" so they could lead the revolution and China could move from feudalism to socialism.

Since its debut in 2002, the Millionaire Fair has been one of the Netherlands' noisiest exports, a traveling supermarket selling newly proletarianized pleasures to those with minty-fresh cash in Swiss bank accounts.