Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

workerism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: work-erism
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Various trends in left-wing political discourse, especially anarchism and Marxism, that emphasize the political importance and centrality of the working class.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"But the differences between these two works matter because they anticipated a fight that has arguably defined American politics since at least 2016, between a technocratic managerialism that champions college education and a nostalgic workerism that aims to defend and restore stable blue-collar employment and tends to resent members of the highly educated class."

Etymology

From worker + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: worker

Usage

Inflected Forms

workerisms (plural)

Questions

What does workerism mean?: Various trends in left-wing political discourse, especially anarchism and Marxism, that emphasize the political importance and centrality of the working class.
Where does workerism come from?: From worker + -ism.

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