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. ^[1]

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. Division of labour or specialization is the specialization of cooperative labour in specific circumscribed tasks and roles intended to increase the Productivity A carpenter (builder is a skilled craftsman who performs carpentry - a wide range of Woodworking that includes constructing buildings, blacksmith is a person who creates objects from Iron or Steel by Forging the Metal; i This article refers to the cooking profession For other uses see Baker (disambiguation A baker is someone who primarily Bakes A printer is a company that provides commercial Printing services often also offering Typesetting and Book-binding services Skilled workers were often politically active through their craft guilds. A craft is a Skill, especially involving practical arts. It may refer to a Trade or particular art

References

1. ^ Cowan, Ruth Schwartz (1997), written at New York, A Social History of American Technology, Oxford University Press, 179, ISBN 0195046056

Further reading

• Stephen Wood (December 1981). Degradation of Work: Skill, Deskilling and the Braverman Debate. HarperCollins. ISBN 0091454018.  
• Beatrice Edwards. Deskilling AND Downsizing: Some Thoughts About The Future Of Technical Education. Retrieved on 2007-04-08. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla is Assassinated (and succeeded by his Praetorian
• Sociology Department, Langara College
• Sociology Department, McMaster University
• Technology, Capitalism and Anarchism

See also

• Scientific management
• Automation
• Unionization
• Deskilling

Automation ( Ancient Greek: = self dictated) roboticization or industrial automation or Numerical control is the use of Control systems A trade union or labour union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages hours and working conditions forming 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

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