産さん業ぎょう予よ備び軍ぐん

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.

• マルクス経けい済ざい学がくでは、産さん業ぎょう予よ備び軍ぐんは資し本ほん主しゅ義ぎの必ひつ然ぜん的てきな産さん物ぶつとされる。

  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.

• 不ふ況きょうで産さん業ぎょう予よ備び軍ぐんが膨ふくれ上あがっている。

  The ranks of the unemployed are swelling due to the recession.