[lbo-talk] School Debate: Central Focus

[Sean Andrews]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:18,  <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
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> But part of the problem is the gradual de-skilling of manual labor. So far as I can see, this does not necessarily improve efficiency, but it does render the worker more helpless and more ignorant.

Harry Braverman said deskilling was never really about efficiency but
stripping workers of their power in the labor process.  "helpless" is
the keyword there; ignorance is the consequence of reducing the power
of workers' knowledge.