Word: proletariats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ruefully Soviet leaders admitted last week that the "staggered" five-day weeks proved a brake on production instead of a spur. The idea was that machines would run every day, tended by four-fifths of the workers. Each day one-fifth of the proletariat would rest, next day another fifth, and so on, but machines never...
Unlike any other Great Power of the period, Great Britain was an island. Her population, rapidly increasing and becoming urbanized because of her Industrial Revolution, began to require more & more foreign food on which Britain's new proletariat preferred to pay no British tariffs. In 1815 this preference became so potent that riotous London workmen chalked the town with their slogan: "Bread or Blood!" Symbolic, a loaf of blood-soaked bread was pitched among Tory landlord M. P.s who upheld the British tariffs (chiefly agricultural) of the day, called the "Corn Laws...
...plague menaces-indeed already afflicts-a great portion of the flock intrusted to our care, striking more clearly the weaker though the more strongly loved -the children; the humble and those with less money-the workers and the proletariat. We refer to the grave pecuniary embarrassment, the financial crisis which ... is bringing unemployment to every land. . . . Now Winter approaches and with it the long succession of suffering and privation which that season brings, especially to the poor and to the helpless young. Most serious of all, however, is that steady aggravation of the plague of unemployment to which we have...
There is an aristocracy among U.S. private colleges and universities: a group of ten which owns 43% of all recorded endowment funds. Then comes a bourgeoisie of 90, which owns 38% of the total. Then a proletariat of 300. which has 19%. It is the proletariat which feels most badly treated, for it teaches 41% of all the students in the group,* while the aristocracy teaches but 17% and the bourgeoisie...
Under the aegis of the monarchy, whose benevolent protection it always enjoyed, the Church was able to monopolize large tracts of the few fertile areas in Spain. A keenly felt economic grievance was thus added to the hostility aroused in the proletariat by the clergy's wealth and power. Age-old hatred for a privileged class may have waited only for the disorder and excitement of a revolutionary period to break out in violence...