noun
industrial reserve army; reserve army of labor
Marxist term for the pool of unemployed or underemployed workers that keeps wages down and is available for capitalist expansion.
マルクス経済学では、産業予備軍は資本主義の必然的な産物とされる。
In Marxian economics, the industrial reserve army is considered an inevitable product of capitalism.
noun
the unemployed; jobless masses
More general, sometimes figurative use referring to the large number of unemployed people, often with a critical or social commentary tone.
不況で産業予備軍が膨れ上がっている。
The ranks of the unemployed are swelling due to the recession.