Im doing a history assignment and having a hard time understanding what proletarianization is.
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Proletarians are workers who own nothing of any value, and so their only asset they can sell is their labor.
Historically, many workers owned the tools and machines they used for work. The craft guilds of medieval Europe, for example.
But over the course of the Industrial Revolution, capital became more concentrated, ownership of the tools and machines became more concentrated in a smaller number of people, known as the *capitalist* class. And the workers were more and more shifted to the status of *proletarians*, workers who own nothing but their labor. This process is called proletarianization.
It also refers to the process where former rural peasants were uprooted from the land and had to move to the cities to look for work.
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