de-skilling

More than 1,600 electricians marched through London to protest something called "de-skilling"—the scandalous phenomenon of for-profit employers seizing an opportunity to produce more with less.

Occupiers Unite! 2011

Unions claim that de-skilling and pay cuts are being imposed by a group of construction firms and have been staging protests at building sites across the UK in recent months, including Sellafield in Cumbria, Grangemouth and Ratcliffe power stations and Blackfriars and King's Cross railway stations in London.

Student tuition fees protests – Wednesday 9 November 2011 2011

There is no official estimate of how much the recruitment freeze has saved but unions warned that the inflated agency bill could mean savings become negligible, and that the practice is de-skilling the civil service.

Government data: Spending on agency staff up 65% as recruitment frozen Polly Curtis 2010

Yet the majority faced de-skilling and hence the loss of a greater part of their personal identity.

Russian Immigrants in Israel. 2009

While the de-skilling process varied by craft, working men clearly noticed its effects by the first decade of the nineteenth century. 28 This period was also noteworthy because of the change from a few sporadic, uncoordinated strikes to more permanent journeymen's associations, culminating in the significant Cordwainers '

Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

However, organized men did not experience de-skilling exclusively as a function of abstract theories of political economy; they personalized the process by making it an issue of community and brotherhood.

Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

We probably shouldn't be surprised by this effect, because videogames have been de-skilling the world for decades now.

Spore Releases the Pixar in You 2008

Like other organized men's claims that de-skilling a craft specifically hurt the families of experienced men, the Society argued that it was the skilled

Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

Spore 's Creature Creator, in other words, is doing something quite interesting and unexpected: It's de-skilling 3-D design.

Spore Releases the Pixar in You 2008

With the apprentice system breaking down and the de-skilling of artisanal work, fathers viewed education as a way to buttress or augment craft knowledge while engaging the work arena. 55

Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006