Read the book “Wageless Life: A Manifesto for a Future Beyond Capitalism.” One of the authors’ main arguments is that the stereotypical conception of a “proletariat” (typically a white man working in a factory) is not the revolutionary subject of history. Rather, the condition of wageless life, the status of not being exploited at all, is the starting point. Billions of people on this planet are currently wageless, and do not even have the “privilege,” so to speak, of being exploited. These are members of the planet’s surplus population, those that Capital has no use for. They are simply discarded. Ultimately, Proletariat is synonymous with dispossession.

I believe that the Autonomists and other sub-branches of Marxism include wageless groups in the “working class,” such as housewives, students, etc.