proletarianisation UK /ˌpɹəʊ.lɪˌtɛː.ɹɪ.ə.naɪˈzeɪ.ʃn̩/US /ˌpɹoʊ.ləˌtɛ.ɹi.ə.nəˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/ noun2 •The act or process of making somebody or something proletarian. •The social process whereby people move from being either employers, unemployed, or self-employed to being employed as wage labour by employers.But that is not the only alternative, except in the minds of latter-day Jacobins for whom the stratifications of the ancien régime are more real than the proletarianizations of their own time. — 1958 formsproletarianisations