There is no longer really a 'propertyless class' who might have nothing to lose but their chains.

It conjures up, for one thing, the image of a completely propertyless society.

However, Weber sees important differences in the market situation of the propertyless groups in society.

They'd been propertyless slaves before we took their world from the kzinti, but now they were building industries.

It was not at all obvious that the uneducated, propertyless masses should govern the country.

His surviving son, Lucius, was propertyless, and so too his widow.

Yet, owners of substantial property assets enter the market with an advantage over propertyless people who simply have to sell their labour to survive.

He also notes that the titling is biased against those who are completely landless and propertyless.

An uneducated, underbred, and underfed propertyless man is a man who has lost the possibility of liberty.

The commune was doomed by the spread of market relations: the peasantry would be divided between capitalists and propertyless labourers.

Led by the successors of Lenin, a marketless, propertyless, povertyless and peace-loving era seemed about to dawn.

The propertyless proletariat, exploited and progressively immiserized in line with Marx's expectations, are in the less developed countries.

Weber, however, placed more emphasis than Marx on divisions within the propertyless class, the class who did not own sufficient property to support themselves without working.

In particular, the market value of the skills of the propertyless varies and the resulting differences in economic return are sufficient to produce different social classes.

Finland's population grew rapidly in the 19th century, and a class of industrial and agrarian workers and propertyless peasants emerged.

According to a 2005 study of marital violence and property ownership, 49% of propertyless women experience physical violence and 84% experienced psychological abuse.

These urban centers tended to attract young and propertyless white males, not only from the Southern countryside, but also from the North and abroad.

In his new life he had to be even more propertyless than St. Francis, for he was just a dog, and whoever heard of a dog with property?

By 1820, because of the large increase in the number of propertyless renters, Moving Day had become "pandemonium", with the streets gridlocked with wagons carting household goods.

Eagle The silver standard displaying a spread-winged eagle that Gaius Marius (q.v.) gave each legion to furnish his propertyless soldiers with a patriotic symbol.

After the growth of small-scale fishing in Iceland in the late nineteenth century the laws were changed in 1894, and free worker status became accessible for most propertyless Icelanders.

As secular political leader of Nauvoo, Joseph Smith also set aside collective farms which insured that the propertyless poor could maintain a living and provide for themselves and their families.

When consulars like Catulus and Scaurus denied Gaius Marius's propertyless Head Count soldiers a pension, Marius rewarded them with land in his name.

But Pope Leo also condemned the "inhumanity of employers and unbridled greed of competitors" and "the yoke almost of slavery" laid on "unnumbered masses" of propertyless workers.

Apportionment in the House would not be by wealth, it would be by people, the free citizens and three-fifths the number of other persons meaning propertyless slaves and taxed Indian farming families.