Skill (labor)

Skill (labor)

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. [Harvard reference |last=Cowan |first=Ruth Schwartz |title=A Social History of American Technology |publisher=Oxford University Press |place=New York |year=1997 |isbn=0195046056 |page=179]

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.

References

Further reading

*
*cite web |author=Beatrice Edwards |title=Deskilling AND Downsizing: Some Thoughts About The Future Of Technical Education |url=http://iacd.oas.org/La%20Educa%20123-125/edw.htm |accessdate=2007-04-08
* [http://www.langara.bc.ca/sociology/Deskilling.html Sociology Department, Langara College]
* [http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/soc/courses/soc4jj3/stuweb/pbl_3/skills.htm Sociology Department, McMaster University]
* [http://flag.blackened.net/blackflag/219/219techn.htm Technology, Capitalism and Anarchism]

ee also

*Scientific management
*Automation
*Unionization
*Deskilling


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Skill — Skills redirects here. For the One Tree Hill character, see Antwon Skills Taylor. Skilled redirects here. For the Australian company, see SKILLED Group. For other uses, see Skill (disambiguation). A skill is the learned capacity to carry out pre… …   Wikipedia

  • Labor intensity — is the relative proportion of labor (compared to capital) used in a process. The term labor intensive can be used when proposing the amount of work that is assigned to each worker/employee (labor), emphasizing on the skill involved in the… …   Wikipedia

  • Labor theory of value — The labor theories of value (LTV) are theories in economics according to which the values of commodities are related to the labor needed to produce them.There are many different accounts of labor value, with the common element that the value of… …   Wikipedia

  • LABOR — Jewish Labor Organizations IN THE PRE STATE PERIOD Since the last decades of the 19th century, a number of sporadic labor associations have arisen in agriculture and in the printing, clothing, and building trades, as well as groups limited to a… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Labor market segmentation — OverviewLabor Market Segmentation is classified as the core, neo classical economic theory, this economic system sees a market labor which consists of buyers and sellers in open competition with each other;which functions in the same way as other …   Wikipedia

  • Labor federation competition in the United States — A labor federation is a group of unions or labor organizations that are in some sense coordinated. The terminology used to identify such organizations grows out of usage, and has sometimes been imprecise. For example, nationals are sometimes… …   Wikipedia

  • labor — I noun 1. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages (Freq. 20) there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field • Syn: ↑labour, ↑working class, ↑proletariat • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • labor — Narrowly defined as purely physical toil. 31 Am J2d Exemp § 19; 31 Am J Rev ed Lab § 1. Services in a manual occupation; work requiring little skill or special training. 36 Am J1st Mech L § 53; 58 Am J1st Workm Comp § 91. Services in following a… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • Labor theory of value —    This theory, elaborated by classical economists, most notably David Ricardo in 1817, who had preceded Karl Marx, is the starting point for Marx’s own theory of surplus value or exploitation. According to the labor theory of value the value of… …   Historical dictionary of Marxism

  • Feminization of Labor — is a term used to describe emerging gendered labor relations born out of the rise of global capitalism. For instance, manufacturing jobs are now considered women’s work.Globalization and Female LaborThe expansion of trade, capital flows, and… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”