Deskilling

Examples of Deskilling in the following topics:

• Industrial Conflict

  • For Braverman, the pursuit of capitalist interests over time ultimately leads to the deskilling and routinization of the worker.
  • His key contribution is his "deskilling" thesis.
  • Braverman argued that capitalist owners and managers were incessantly driven to deskill the labor force to lower production costs and ensure higher productivity.
  • Deskilled labor is cheap and above all easy to control due to the workers lack of direct engagement in the production process.

• Factories, Working Women, and Wage Labor

  • Industrialization in the United States was marked by a growth in factories and an implementation of wage labor, as well as by an increase in the number of working women and deskilled workers.
  • As the nation deepened its technological base, artisans and craftsmen were made obsolete through the process of deskilling, as they were replaced by non-specialized workers.

• Flaws in the Classical Perspectives

  • Both were made possible by the deskilling of jobs, which arose because of the knowledge transfer that scientific management achieved, whereby knowledge was transferred to cheaper workers, as well as from workers into tools.

• Nativism

  • This job competition resulted in increased hostility toward immigrants; as work became increasingly deskilled, no worker was irreplaceable, and no one’s job was safe.

• Immigrant Labor

  • As work became increasingly deskilled, no worker was irreplaceable, and no one’s job was safe.

• Immigration to the U.S.

  • As work became increasingly deskilled, no worker was irreplaceable, and no one’s job was safe.

• Irish Immigration

  • As work became increasingly deskilled, no worker was irreplaceable, and no one’s job was safe.

• The Beginnings of the Labor Movement

  • As work became increasingly deskilled, no worker was irreplaceable, and no one’s job was safe.