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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.
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. Skilled workers were often politically active through their craft guilds.
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Further reading
- Stephen Wood Degradation of Work: Skill, Deskilling and the Braverman Debate. HarperCollins.
- Beatrice Edwards Deskilling AND Downsizing: Some Thoughts About The Future Of Technical Education. Retrieved on 2007-04-08..
- Sociology Department, Langara College
- Sociology Department, McMaster University
- Technology, Capitalism and Anarchism
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