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Meaning of "deskilling" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DESKILLING

deskilling  [dɪˈskɪlɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DESKILLING

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conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Deskilling is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DESKILLING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Deskilling

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. This results in cost savings due to lower investment in human capital, and reduces barriers to entry, weakening the bargaining power of the human capital. It is criticized for decreasing quality, demeaning labor, and undermining community.

Definition of deskilling in the English dictionary

The definition of deskilling in the dictionary is a reduction in the need for skills to do a particular job.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DESKILLING


billing
ˈbɪlɪŋ
boiling
ˈbɔɪlɪŋ
drilling
ˈdrɪlɪŋ
failing
ˈfeɪlɪŋ
filing
ˈfaɪlɪŋ
filling
ˈfɪlɪŋ
giant-killing
ˈdʒaɪəntˌkɪlɪŋ
Inniskilling
ˌɪnɪsˈkɪlɪŋ
killing
ˈkɪlɪŋ
lady-killing
ˈleɪdɪˌkɪlɪŋ
mailing
ˈmeɪlɪŋ
painkilling
ˈpeɪnˌkɪlɪŋ
paling
ˈpeɪlɪŋ
reskilling
riːˈskɪlɪŋ
sailing
ˈseɪlɪŋ
skilling
ˈskɪlɪŋ
smiling
ˈsmaɪlɪŋ
styling
ˈstaɪlɪŋ
willing
ˈwɪlɪŋ
winterkilling
ˈwɪntəˌkɪlɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DESKILLING

desistance
desistence
desk
desk clerk
desk editor
desk pad
desk study
desk-bound
deskfast
deskill
deskman
desknote
desknote computer
desktop
desktop publishing
desman
desmid
desmidian
desmine
desmodium

WORDS THAT END LIKE DESKILLING

bestselling
calling
compelling
controlling
direct selling
dwelling
falling
feeling
fulfilling
hot-selling
installing
modelling
polling
rolling
scrolling
selling
spelling
start the ball rolling
swelling
telling
travelling

Synonyms and antonyms of deskilling in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «deskilling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DESKILLING

Find out the translation of deskilling to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of deskilling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «deskilling» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

去技能化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

descualificación
570 millions of speakers

English

deskilling
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

deskilling
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

deskilling
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

деквалификация
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desqualificação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

deskilling
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

déqualification
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Meja kerja
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dequalifizierung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

deskilling
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

deskilling
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Deskilling
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

deskilling
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

deskilling
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डेस्किलिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Vasıfsızlaşma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dequalificazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

deskilling
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

декваліфікація
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

descalificare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανειδικευση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

deskilling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

deskilling
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

deskilling
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of deskilling

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DESKILLING»

The term «deskilling» is normally little used and occupies the 143.991 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DESKILLING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about deskilling

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESKILLING»

Discover the use of deskilling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to deskilling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The intangibilities of form: skill and deskilling in art ...
A rich and groundbreaking study of conceptual art, from Duchamp to Warhol, and its relationship to capitalism.
John Roberts, 2007
2
Deskilling Migrant Women in the Global Care Industry
Apart from other penalties, such as gender and race, discussed in Chapter 1, it was these tangible structural barriers that led to their deskilling—an inability to practise or use the skills that they had learned in universities and in their workplaces ...
Sondra Cuban, 2013
3
Key Ideas in Sociology
Deskilling. Harry. Braverman. The. Idea. A S MODERN INDUSTRY HAS ADVANCED AND NEW METHODS OF PRODUCTION HAVE BEEN ./ijntroduced, many writers have speculated whether the new industrial technologies would liberate ...
Martin Slattery, 2003
4
The Sociology of Work: Continuity and Change in Paid and ...
CHAPTER. THREE••••••••. Paid. Work. in. Industrial. Society. and. Deskilling? It is widely thought that one of the major consequences of the rise of industrial capitalism was the destruction of skill following the introduction of machinery. From the ...
Stephen Edgell, 2005
5
Culture Change and the New Technology: An Archaeology of the ...
Outside the home, individuals tended to work for entrepreneurs who owned the means of production and dictated the work process, circumstances that led to the deskilling of workers. Deskilling was accomplished by segmenting the labor ...
Paul A. Shackel, 1996
6
Becoming a Teacher of Hope: A Critical Ethnography of ...
This critical ethnography explores how five novice teachers committed to teaching in socially critical and pedagogically democratic ways experience the occupational socialization process as they begin teaching in conventional public ...
Shelly Furuness, 2008
7
Human Factors in Aviation
Deskilling In addition to monitoring the automation, the other task left for pilots on highly automated flight decks is to take over from the automation in cases of failure or undesired system behavior (Bainbridge, 1983). One problem with this task ...
Earl L. Wiener, David C. Nagel, 1988
8
Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of ...
Deskilling. Teacher. Work. One of the major threats facing prospective and existing teachers within the public schools is the increasing development of instrumental ideologies that emphasize a technocratic approach to both teacher ...
Henry A. Giroux, 1988
9
Invisible Virtuosi: The Deskilling and Reskilling of ...
These works are packaged and produced by BiblioLabs under license by ProQuest UMI.
Gualberto Simeon Pillich, 2011
10
Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production: A ...
Generally speaking, the arguments given by advocates of the "new economy" for the reskilling thesis are most plausible for certain groups of workers in the core, while the deskilling thesis appears to hold for many of those working on the ...
Tony Smith, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DESKILLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term deskilling is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Being David Brooks
“Dysfunctions,” of course, not to due to racism, redlining, deskilling, offshoring, policing, or disinvestment in their communities, but to the poor's ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
2
Georg Lukacs: Lessons for struggle today
The results of reification can be seen in the development of Taylorism, deskilling, the assembly line and the time clock, which reduce the worker ... «Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Jul 15»
3
Steve Randall: The shape of class in America
... today computerized monitoring, technological worker displacement and deskilling. Between owners and workers and among factions of both, ... «GazetteNET, Jun 15»
4
We're All Precarious Now
On the one hand, deskilling, fragmentation, speedup and greater precariousness for all workers has weakened workers. But other aspects ... «International Viewpoint, Jun 15»
5
The Return of the Great White Boss, Bruce Springsteen
This said, there's likely no better chronicle of deskilling and its social ravages than the one he'll leave to a nation decimated by the sleight of ... «PopMatters, Jun 15»
6
Interzum Cologne: Rocking and 'rolling' in the machinery hall
... focused on assisting mattress makers in bringing production processes in-house, while at the same time simplifying—or “deskilling”—machinery operations. «BedTimes Magazine, Jun 15»
7
The internet is the answer to all the questions of our time
Internet companies are where de-skilling takes place, but the people doing the deskilling are, necessarily, highly skilled. Tech giants have such ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
8
Will the European Union stay united?
The damage done to the economic and social environment by deskilling, de-professionalization and all that has gone with the neoliberal ... «Socialist Worker Online, Jun 15»
9
Searching for the New Militant Minority in the American Labor …
The surrender of control over the introduction of technology, and the resulting speed-up and deskilling of work, was justified as a trade-off for ... «In These Times, Jun 15»
10
'Why teachers should become consumers of curricula and lessons …
I'm wary of warnings issued by veteran educationalists who speak of maths programmes and the national strategies as deskilling and de-professionalising ... «TES News, Jun 15»

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