includes grande (big) and moyenne (medium) bourgeoisie, but essentially they are medium (regional/national) and large (global) capitalists, that mainly rely on industrial profit, if not landed rend, and financial interest, based around growing industrial and financial production

Though I consider bourgeoisie in its western context, to specifically refer to the first modern form in Europe, birthed from the Medieval period

Bourg-eois --> Bourg derives from the medieval German term for "city", as they derived from the growing cities of their era

a small business owner (only a handful of businesses directly owned by them)

wage/salaried laborers who depend heavily on their wage/salary, lest a few days/weeks leave em destitute and homeless

They are historically converted from the destruction of peasants, yeomanry, guild craftsmen, apprentices and mentors, during the progressive bourgeois revolution against feudalism.

Originally, in Rome, such term was derived from those citizens who made offspring to serve the Roman slave mode of production

despite its name, it is a similarly newly-created class of capitalism, more destitute and ruined than the proletariat, defined by a lack of official joblessness and stability, which include people from the simply unemployed and unhoused to criminals, strike-breakers, prostitutes, and gangsters

They are a wild card that can ally with either bourgeois or proletariat forces

Lumpen (rabble) + proletariat