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

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

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 Algorithmic Integration and Precarious (Dis)Obedience: On the Co-Constitution of Migration Regime and Workplace Regime in Digitalised Manufacturing and Logistics

2021 ◽  
pp. 095001702110314
Author(s):  
Simon Schaupp
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Manual Work ◽  
Work Control ◽  
Permanent Residence ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
Self Organisation ◽  
And Migration

This article analyses the interaction of the algorithmic workplace regime and the migration regime in manual work in platform logistics and manufacturing in Germany. Based on ethnographic case studies, the article reconstructs how companies integrate migrant workers by using systems of algorithmic work control. These simplify the labour process and direct workers without relying on a certain language. Algorithmic work control, however, does not realise its intended disciplining effects on its own but is dependent on external factors. A precarious residence status is such an external disciplining factor as it can create an implicit alliance of migrant workers with their employers in the hope for permanent residence. Nonetheless, the interaction of the two regimes also produced new forms of solidarity between the workers, which in some cases led to new forms of self-organisation. Thus, workplace regime and migration regime co-constitute each other.

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