• Skills

References for Theme: Skills

• Attewell, Paul
• "The Deskilling Controversy" (1987)

• "What is skill?" (1990)

• "Skill and occupational changes in US manufacturing" (1992)

• "Comment: The First and Second Digital Divides" (2001)

• Clarke, Linda; Winch, Christopher
• "A European skills framework?—but what are skills? Anglo‐Saxon versus German concepts" (2006)

• Coeckelbergh, Mark
• "E-care as craftsmanship: virtuous work, skilled engagement, and information technology in health care" (2013)

  (p.808) However, influenced by Sennet’s notion of craftsmanship, Dewey’s emphasis on know-how, and Dreyfus’s view of ethical expertise, we can make a much closer connection between techne and phronesis—and between poiesis and praxis— than Aristotle. I propose that we define the mastery and ‘‘technical’’ expertise that is needed in craftsmanship not as mere means to an end, but as being directly constitutive of the good praxis aims at. In a specific practice, developing and applying ‘‘technical’’ expertise as a highly skilledcraftsman is not entirely different from making wise judgments and doing good. On the contrary, in craftsmanship understood as professional excellence and as good practice, means and end merge: good craftsmanship requires...

• "E-care as craftsmanship: virtuous work, skilled engagement, and information technology in health care" (2013)

  (p.809) Good work also means knowing how to deal with things and knowing how to care for them. Dreyfus and Kelly argue that by engaging in skilled activities, we can learn to care for things rather than treating them as ‘a mere resource’ (Dreyfus and Kelly 2011, p. 217)—something Heidegger warned for in his later work (see for example Heidegger 1977). Again the craftsman’s understanding is a tacit, intuitive one, based on practical experience. The authors write about the craftsman who sees how the wood ‘will respond to an axe’ (Dreyfus and Kelly 2011, p. 208). They say that the wheelwright...

• "E-care as craftsmanship: virtuous work, skilled engagement, and information technology in health care" (2013)

• Darrah, Charles
• "Skill Requirements at Work: Rhetoric Versus Reality" (1994)

• Form, William
• "On the degradation of skills" (1987)

• Glasmeier, Amy; Salant, Priscilla
• "Low-skill workers in rural America face permanent job loss" (2006)

• Levy, Frank; Murnane, Richard J
• "With What Skills Are Computers a Complement?" (1996)

• Lloyd, Caroline
• In Search of the High Skills Society: Some Reflections on Current Visions (2002)

• Lloyd, Caroline; Payne, Jonathan
• "Developing a Political Economy of Skill" (2002)

• Skills in the Age of Over-Qualification: Comparing Service Sector Work in Europe (2016)

• "Fewer jobs, better jobs? An international comparative study of robots and ‘routine’ work in the public sector" (2021)

• McGuinness, Seamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Redmond, Paul
• "Skills-displacing technological change and its impact on jobs: challenging technological alarmism?" (2021)

  (p.16) It is increasingly documented that automation and technological change have the potential todestroy jobs, as well as to enhance and improve existing jobs by creating new tasks and rolesthat did not exist in the past. While predicting the exact impacts of technology on the labourmarket is virtually impossible due to the uncertainty involved, our research emphasises the positiveeffects of technological change that take place due to within-job reallocation effects on job tasks andskill requirements. Firstly, the share of workers affected by SDT appears low in light of some of theexisting research that has spurred much technological alarmism in the recent...

• "Skills-displacing technological change and its impact on jobs: challenging technological alarmism?" (2021)

• Murcio, Ricardo; Scalzo, Germán; Pinto, Javier
• "Can AI Emulate Soft Skills?: The Future of Work in the Balance" (2021)

• Payne, Jonathan
• "The unbearable lightness of skill: the changing meaning of skill in UK policy discourses andsome implications for education and training" (2000)

• The Changing Meaning of Skill (2004)

• "Emotional labour and skill: A reappraisal" (2009)

• Pfeiffer, Sabine
• "Robots, Industry 4.0 and Humans, or Why Assembly Work Is More than Routine Work" (2016)

• Rimbau-Gilabert, Eva; Pasamar, Susana
• "New Forms of Work" (2021)

• Sandberg, Jörgen
• "Understanding of Work: The Basis for Competence Development" (2009)

  (p.13) Although we develop our understanding through interpretation, Heidegger claims that ‘in interpretation, understanding does not become something different. It becomes itself’. Moreover, interpretation is not ‘the acquiring of information about what is understood; it is rather the working out of possibilities projected in understanding’. Hence, according to Heidegger,, interpretation is not something separate from understanding but, rather, a particular mode of understanding, which clarifies what we already have understood in advance: ‘Interpretation always only takes care of bringing out what is disclosed as a cultivation of the possibilities inherent in an understanding’. This means that when the optimisers interpret their...

• "Understanding of Work: The Basis for Competence Development" (2009)

  (p.18) Based on findings from interpretative approaches, it was argued that understanding of work, rather than attributes, constitutes competence at work. Drawing on these interpretative findings, it was suggested that understanding of work is not only the basis for competence at work but also for the development of that competence. In an introductory analysis of how understanding constitutes the development of competence, it was shown that understanding of work not only stipulates the competence that is developed at work but also the specific ways in which it is developed. Finally, by drawing on Heidegger’s phenomenological investigation of being, it was argued...

• "Understanding of Work: The Basis for Competence Development" (2009)

• Schaff, Kory
• "Skilled Workers, Family Unification, and Immigration" (2019)

• Schlogl, Lukas; Weiss, Elias; Prainsack, Barbara
• "Constructing the ‘Future of Work’: An analysis of the policy discourse" (2021)

  (p.14) Our findings show the dominance of a specific narrative within the grey policy literature on FOW. It starts with the assumption of unprecedented, rapid technological advance that, embedded in demographic and ecological transformations as well as globalisation, creates opportunities and risks. The main opportunities are gains in productivity, new jobs and higher living standards. The risks are new inequalities, pressures on social security systems, and the costs of transition and disruption for various groups. The answer to these challenges lies in the re- or upskilling of the workforce and adjustments to social and labour market policies.

• "Constructing the ‘Future of Work’: An analysis of the policy discourse" (2021)

  (p.17) Despite common tendencies and a ‘standard narrative’, which we lay out, there is no consensus in this literature either regarding the problems arising from the FOW or regarding adequate solutions and there arguably cannot be in this ideologically contested policy field. The policy literature in this field is often advocacy for vested interests, even when outputs present themselves as scoping papers or instances of ‘blue sky thinking’. The kind of advice given depends on the type of institution: for instance, consulting firms tend to promote more cheerful, laissez-faire and business-oriented discourse, government actors offer more problem-oriented and interventionist framings. The...

• "Constructing the ‘Future of Work’: An analysis of the policy discourse" (2021)

• Spenner, Kenneth I
• "Deciphering Prometheus: Temporal Change in the Skill Level of Work" (1983)

• "Skill: Meanings, Methods, and Measures" (1990)

• "Skill" (1990)

• "Technological change, skill requirements, and education: The case for uncertainty" (1995)

• Thursfield, Denise
• Post-Fordism and Skill: Theories and Perceptions (2017)

• Vallas, Steven P
• Research in the Sociology of Work (2016)

• Vallas, Steven Peter
• "The Concept of Skill: A Critical Review" (1990)

• Vu, Mai Chi; Wolfgramm, Rachel; Spiller, Chellie
• "Minding less: Exploring mindfulness and mindlessness in organizations through Skillful Means" (2018)

• Warhurst, Chris; Mayhew, Ken; Finegold, David; Buchanan, John
• The Oxford Handbook of Skills and Training (2017)

• Xie, Mengmeng; Ding, Lin; Xia, Yan; Guo, Jianfeng; Pan, Jiaofeng; Wang, Huijuan
• "Does artificial intelligence affect the pattern of skill demand? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms" (2021)

  (p.303) The results of the empirical analysisdemonstrate that AI has a strong impact upon relative skill demand. First, AI adoption in Chinese manufacturingfirms reduces the relative demandfor low-skilled labor by twice as much as it increases the relative demandfor high-skilled labor, and the longer the time since the adoption of AI,the greater the impact upon the relative demand for skills. 

• "Does artificial intelligence affect the pattern of skill demand? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms" (2021)

  (p.304) In the long run, the application of AI is an inevitable trend which willimprove the firm-level labor skills. Comparing with some developed countries where AI has no significant impact on high-skilled employment, the developing countries represented by China should pay more attention to the adverse effects brought by the polarization of employment. Since the damaging effects of AI on the employment of low-skilled workers first occur in high-tech enterprises, which are mostly concentrated in the eastern region of China, policy-makers should focusmore on the employment of low-skilled labor of high-tech enterprises inthe eastern region. Policies aimed at improving the employment...

• "Does artificial intelligence affect the pattern of skill demand? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms" (2021)

• Zoller, D
• "Skilled Perception, Authenticity, and the Case Against Automation" (2017)

  (p.7) Crowell offers a way to defend the goodness of a limited, skilled perceptual life in terms of Korsgaard’s concept of “practical identities”: this is to say that, while I am of course a human being in general, I consider and value myself more specifically as a parent, as a professor, etc.; my particular roles permit me to value and understand my life and agency. On Crowell’s model, what it means to “be” some practical identity—say, a parent—is precisely having and following out the skilled, trained perceptions particular to parenting. Like Sennett and Crawford, Crowell considers that in much daily activity,...

• "Skilled Perception, Authenticity, and the Case Against Automation" (2017)