Stagnant Surplus Population, a form of relative surplus population under capitalism which embraces the part of the working class employed on an extremely irregular basis and encompasses broad strata of working people. These include, above all, unskilled workers, people living in areas where industrial production has been curtailed, the temporarily disabled, and those made redundant by scientific and technical progress. The scale of stagnant surplus population, like the size of floating surplus population, is affected by the economic cycle, the capitalist organisation of labour and the decreasing marginal age of workers. All this leads to an absolute deterioration of the condition of the proletariat. Stagnant surplus population is especially extensive in the economically less developed countries. One of its forms is partial unemployment (incomplete working week or working day).