Skill (labor)

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Skill is a measure of a worker's expertise, specialization, wages, and supervisory capacity. Skilled workers are generally more trained, higher paid, and have more responsibilities than unskilled workers.^[1]

Skilled workers have long had historical import (see Division of labor) as masons, carpenters, blacksmiths, bakers, brewers, coopers, printers and other occupations that are economically productive. Skilled workers were often politically active through their craft guilds.

[edit] References

1. ^ Cowan, Ruth Schwartz (1997), written at New York, A Social History of American Technology, Oxford University Press, 179, ISBN 0195046056

[edit] Further reading

• Stephen Wood (December 1981). Degradation of Work: Skill, Deskilling and the Braverman Debate. HarperCollins. ISBN 0091454018. 
• Beatrice Edwards. Deskilling AND Downsizing: Some Thoughts About The Future Of Technical Education. Retrieved on 2007-04-08.
• Sociology Department, Langara College
• Sociology Department, McMaster University
• Technology, Capitalism and Anarchism

[edit] See also

• Scientific management
• Automation
• Unionization
• Deskilling