See also:

• PROLETARIAT, or PROLETARIATE

PROLETARIAT, or PROLETARIATE  , a See also:

• TERM

term borrowed from the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French and used collectively of those classes of a See also:

• POLITICAL

political community who depend for their livelihood on their daily labour, the wage-earning, operative class as opposed to the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital-owning class . It is of frequent use by those social reformers who See also:

• BASE

base their theories on the supposed antagonism of capital and labour . The Latin proletarius, from which the word was formed, was the name given to the See also:

• BODY

body of citizens possessed of no See also:

• PROPERTY

property and who therefore served the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state with their See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children (proles, offspring) . This See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of the members of the state was traditionally ascribed to Servius Tullius .