lumpenproletariat

• "Considering how scarce traders had been on Aerie, and how small the population and industry probably still were, we loaded a lot of stuff more massive than usual, machinery and so on." —  Starfarers
• This is being done with roughnecks, cactus-men, and assorted other wage slaves, but also with an abundant supply of Remade slave labor confined in pens when they are not working, a kind of ultimate bottomline lumpenproletariat, feared, despised, and looked down upon by the humans and aliens who are at least getting paid. —  Asimov's Science Fiction
• He believes that isolated efforts such as his mean little in a world he comes close to writing off as a living hell, populated by an American lumpenproletariat: —  Lost Generation
• By all accounts, I repeat, Lewis himself did not believe "that the lumpenproletariat had itself most to blame…." —  Cuba and Oscar Lewis: An Exchange
• The reason Liberals really hate Wal-Mart is that the whole Liberal mantra rests on a poor and downtrodden * lumpenproletariat. —  The American Spectator

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus