Meaning & use
Immiseration
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The process of being made poor or impoverished, especially as a large-scale social or economic condition.
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Economists debated whether globalization had led to the immiseration of factory workers.
Marx predicted the progressive immiseration of the working class under capitalism.
A note on using this word
The term is closely associated with Karl Marx's theory of increasing worker poverty under industrial capitalism.
Words with a similar meaning
impoverishmentpauperization
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Words with an opposite meaning
enrichment
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