Proletariat

=Proletariat=

The Proletariat were a class of working people without access to wealth-producing property. In Europe it was a product of the economic changes and increased commercialization in the 16th and 17th centuries. Some of the proletariat class were manufacturing workers; while others were paid laborers on agricultural estates. Another group still pressed into cities and added to the growing problem of beggars and wandering poor.

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