deskilling

This may be shown in the deskilling of workers, though this is not always the case.

Deskilling appeared to be closely linked to computerization: least skill was required by the clerks at the most computerized of the institutions, the local authority.

Both were made possible by the deskilling of jobs, which was made possible by the knowledge transfer that scientific management achieved.

Deskilling is rife, even for 'professionals'.

Deskilling is the process by which skilled labor within an industry or economy is eliminated by the introduction of technologies operated by semiskilled or unskilled workers.

Even where "control or deskilling has been the intent of managerial choices with respect to new information technology, managers themselves are also captive to a wide range of impulses and pressures.

The application of advanced electronics and telecommunications to the production process offers a new opportunity to escape from the trap of rigid work hierarchies and the deskilling of workers.

By 1900, the mechanization and deskilling of labor in the textile industry enabled factory owners to eliminate skilled workers and employ large numbers of unskilled immigrant workers, the majority of whom were women.

Rembrandt would have considered Cezanne to be a hopelessly unskilled, amateur painter - (In fact, from the Impressionists onwards, the continual deskilling in art has meant that we truly have lived trough the "age of the amateur".