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Industry in which men are under-employed (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

mining

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'industry in which men are under-employed' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'industry in' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'in' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ming' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for mining that I've seen before include "Laying down explosives" , "Extracting ore etc. from the earth" , "non-renewable industry" , "Excavating (ores)" , "Extracting ores or coal from the earth" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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