0 to reduce the amount of skill that someone needs to do a particular job:
New technology has been used to deskill many jobs.
1 to change the way a job is done so that less skill is needed to do it:
New technology has been used to deskill many jobs.
2 to reduce the level of skill that a worker has:
By this time mechanization had effectively deskilled many craftsmen.
Similarly, we have always been wary of exalting competition to the point where it devalues and deskills the less successful.
This has the potential to disempower and/or deskill the teachers.
Braverman argued that capitalist owners and managers were incessantly driven to deskill the labor force to lower production costs and ensure higher productivity.
