Review: The Transformation of Work?: Skill, Flexibility and the Labour Process, Domination and Resistance, Cities and Economic Development: From the Dawn of History to the Present

1990 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-374
Author(s):  
T Rutherford ◽  
P Wheatley ◽  
E A Wrigley
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
Work Skill

The Degradation of Work? Skill, Deskilling and the Labour Process

1983 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 282
Author(s):  
G. Salaman ◽  
Stephen Wood
Keyword(s):  
Labour Process ◽  
Work Skill

The Degradation of Work? Skill, Deskilling, and the Labour Process.

1986 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Peter Whalley ◽  
Stephen Wood
Keyword(s):  
Labour Process ◽  
Work Skill

scholarly journals ‘Use-Value’ and the Re-thinking of Skills, Learning and the Labour Process

2006 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 593-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter H. Sawchuk
Keyword(s):  
Full Range ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Human Learning ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Use Value ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
Work Skill ◽  
Value Sets ◽  
Skills Learning ◽  
Systemic Understanding

Reviewing multiple traditions of social analysis of work, skill and knowledge this article seeks to renew the possibility for a critical, integrated approach. Contextualizing and then criticizing the ongoing ‘up-skilling/de-skilling impasse’, I offer discussion of several alternative conceptual resources that may contribute to a more robust appreciation for learning and human development, potentially unified under a suggested ‘Use-Value Thesis’ on the labour/learning process. It is argued that recognizing ‘use-value’ sets the stage for a broader systemic understanding of the contradictory processes (e.g. up-skilling/de-skilling, engagement/alienation, co-operation/conflict) that occur simultaneously in all workplaces under capitalism, and in turn offers a means to more coherently assess the full range of human learning.

scholarly journals Worker Resistance and Taylorism in Britain

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Whitston
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Worker Resistance ◽  
Conditions Of Employment

SummaryWorker resistance and employer conservatism in Britain are said to have combined to retard British economic development and frustrate the emergence of modern managerial structures based on Taylorism and/or Fordism. However, the notion of worker resistance is a deeply unsatisfactory one because it fails to distinguish different forms of resistance and their implications for the labour process. And if British employers were slow to abandon older tools and techniques, they nevertheless did so. Worker resistance secured better terms and conditions of employment but was incapable of altering in any fundamental way the new methods of organizing work and managing production.

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