| 释义 |
deskill, v.|diːˈskɪl|
[f. de- II. 2 + skill n.1]
trans. To convert (a workplace, employment) from one that requires a skilled worker or workers to one that does not; to reduce the number of skilled workers in (an industry); of new technology, etc.: to render (a skilled worker) unskilled. Hence deˈskilled ppl. a., deˈskilling vbl. n.
1941Country Life 1 Feb. 93/1 Civil servants are adept at the creation of composite words... One of the latest examples is the verb ‘to de-skill’, which is, we believe, applied to factories and refers to the increasing [use] of unskilled labour in them. 1967Observer (Colour Suppl.) 28 May 30/2 The cutlery business..needs to be ‘de-skilled’, because most of the highly skilled people in it are nearer 75 than 25. 1976Film & Television Technician Nov. 3/3 What about the reported ‘de-skilling’ of television programme operations reported from the USA where the revolution is in full swing? 1982J. Naisbitt Megatrends (1984) i. 31 He found that production and service jobs tended to become ‘deskilled’ when technology is added. 1982Spectator 11 Dec. 17/2 In doing so they also deskill the typist's job and, by increasing office productivity, lead to an overall decrease in secretarial jobs in the longer term. 1985Guardian 6 Apr. 4/6 It will signal a casualised and deskilled Post Office. |