Destruction or redistribution of engineering skills? The case of numerical control

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Abstract

A certain current in Marxism, seeking to elaborate the concept of the labour process has been influential in representing changes in types and scale of new production technology as effects of necessary and general ‘tendencies’ or ‘laws’ of capitalist exploitation and accumulation. 2 The object and orientation of these laws is proposed primarily as the subordination of the autonomy of manual production workers through simultaneously decreasing the level of skill in production tasks and increasing managerial control over their execution.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Degradation of Work?
Subtitle of host publicationSkill, De-Skilling and the Labour Process
EditorsStephen Wood
Place of PublicationAbingdon, U. K.
PublisherRoutledge
Pages179-200
Number of pages22
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781003511199
ISBN (Print)9781032840963
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Dec 1982

Publication series

NameRoutledge Revivals

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Economics,Econometrics and Finance
  • General Business,Management and Accounting
  • General Social Sciences
  • General Arts and Humanities

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