Do industrialisation and the shift to services and knowledge-based work like IT lead to greater skills or de-skilling? Elaborate.

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There is an important debate in Sociology about whether industrialisation and the shift to services and knowledge-based work like IT leads to greater skills in society or does it create for de-skilling.
There is no comparison between the skills of a software engineer and that of a farmer. They are both skilled in their own ways.
The issue that increasing mechanisation is de-skilling people i.e. the work that could be earlier done using manual labour is being done by machines de-skilling workers in the process.
But, for any developing nation industrialisation is crucial to its growth but the questions is the price that needs to paid for this growth.

kratos · Answer 1 · 2020-05-07T16:21:15+0000

There is an important debate in Sociology about whether industrialisation and the shift to services and knowledge-based work like IT leads to greater skills in society or does it create for de-skilling.
There is no comparison between the skills of a software engineer and that of a farmer. They are both skilled in their own ways.
The issue that increasing mechanisation is de-skilling people i.e. the work that could be earlier done using manual labour is being done by machines de-skilling workers in the process.
But, for any developing nation industrialisation is crucial to its growth but the questions is the price that needs to paid for this growth.

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