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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.^[1]
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

★ Degradation of Work: Skill, Deskilling and the Braverman Debate, Stephen Wood, , , HarperCollins, ,

★ Deskilling AND Downsizing: Some Thoughts About The Future Of Technical Education Beatrice Edwards

★ Sociology Department, Langara College

★ Sociology Department, McMaster University

★ Technology, Capitalism and Anarchism

See also

★ Scientific management

★ Automation

★ Unionization

★ Deskilling