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deskill
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de·skill  (d-skl)
tr.v. de·skilled, de·skill·ing, de·skills
1. To eliminate the need for skilled labor in (an industry), especially by the introduction of high technology.
2. To downgrade (a job or occupation) from a skilled to a semiskilled or unskilled position.

deskill [diːˈskɪl]
vb (tr)
1. (Business / Industrial Relations & HR Terms) to mechanize or computerize (a job or process) to such an extent that little human skill is required to do it
2. (Business / Industrial Relations & HR Terms) to cause (skilled persons or a labour force) to work at a job that does not utilize their skills
deskilling  n
Translations
deskill
vt jobvereinfachen (sodass die Arbeit keine oder kaum Fachkenntnisse mehr erfordert)


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Urban high schools that rely on bureaucratic structures and behaviors have allowed urban students and their teachers to become deskilled (Anyon, 1997; Johnson, 2004) with their reliance on scripted lessons and unauthentic assessments, and may be widening the gap in wealth and power in the US (Giroux, 2003; Sehr, 1997).
Bas's deskilled style supports the articulation of his sensibility, which might be called postcamp and which he himself has called "fag limbo" (a term elaborated by Wayne Koestenbaum in the 2004 Biennial catalog).
The old story held that industry pulled recently dispossessed rural people to the city, where--along with deskilled artisans--they became part of a growing urban industrial proletariat.
 
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