Deskilling

Braverman concept of deskilling has a clear-cut link with the Marx belief that workers are the object of exploitation to capitalist in labour process in many respects. Workers, into the larger extent were economically constrained because they have no alternatives to sell their labour power otherwise to capitalists. As capitalists seek into the most efficient way of the production process, labours who play a central role in production line are affected by the changes of process through the new technology or manager controls (i.e. bureaucratization). Braverman, through his prominent theory argued that the advent of technological development and division of labour has removed workers control over their work, by enabling their overall skill being degraded to one or a few specialized task in order to suit with the machines.

In historical order, the notion of deskilling can be noticed in three major parts of technological advancement which was mechanization, automation and computerization. These Tayloristic labour process advancements was first promoted by Frederick Taylor in 1911 who believed that wokers are inherently lazy and resistance to their works. Therefore, the managerial approach was more likely to economic motives rather than people-friendly approaches.

Capitalists turned to developments in management and machinery in larger scale. At this point, Braverman argued that the control of labour was becoming more complex than it had been before and significantly deskilled the workers. He believed that the workers possession set of skills being degraded namely by the separation of works into conception (i.e.designing, planning and supervising) and execution (i.e.manual works) by the tayloristic managers. This separation of work implies that managers were trying to make a clear job task that has to be completed by the manual workers and separating