deskill

I draw attention to the entrepreneurial ideology that underlies both venture labor and several manifestations of digital labor, defined as deskilled and underpaid/unpaid work performed for online platforms.

He said: "Our members are being forced to meet unreasonable targets as their work is deskilled and they are reduced to nothing more than robots.

The consultation document produced by the university argues that, 'The support to the academic and student communities from the qualified subject librarians is hard to justify in value-for-money terms at a time when the process of literature searches is substantially deskilled by online bibliographical resources.'

Drain's drawings incorporate collaged elements reminiscent of Eduardo Paolozzi, Sigmar Polke, and Hannah Hoch, but with the addition of deskilled, felt-tip patterning and a sci-fi feel.

Under managerialism, which is associated with mass production, "all strategic decisions are made by owner-managers and executed down the line." Deskilled workers know only their immediate tasks, "work relations are based on contract," and links between work and politics are severed.

Fissell aptly notes, were 'deskilled', and a patient-driven system was replaced by a doctor-driven medical economy.

This thesis reached its best-known form in the work of Braverman (1974), who placed the deskilling argument in a Marxist framework and extended it to clerical and other nonproduction jobs.(3) In the 1970s, workers expressed growing dissatisfaction with production jobs, and there followed explicit public policy acknowledgments that narrow, deskilled jobs were part of the cause of this malaise (see, for example, U.S.

'They are extremely good nurses but in this country are becoming deskilled and being used primarily as an extra pair of hands.

The idea that painting was somehow bound to fail--a presupposition that finds formal expression in the now-prevalent "deskilled" aesthetic--is also worked through in deeper conceptual terms in the canvases of Tuymans and those in his wake.

The question we should ask is in whose benefit is it, that while better results mean ever more teenagers achieve the goal of going to university, young people are being progressively deskilled, quite apart from the fact that admissions tutors and employers alike find it impossible to distinguish between so many students with so many A grades between them?

The process in clerks' jobs and in bookkeeping might proceed in reverse--with males being deskilled first, then supplanted by machines and women--but the link between women's entry into a field and its degradation remains solid.

high-tech industries have utilized cost-cutting strategies such as outsourcing production to lower-wage countries, hiring temporary workers, and employing female and minority workers to do deskilled tasks at low rates of pay.