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A change so as to require less skill and knowledge, often leading to less responsibility and control.
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Middle management is particularly threatened with dequalification (reduction in decision-making, supervision and control) .
According to Braverman's thesis, Taylorism, or scientific management, has been the key feature in the devaluation and dequalification of work.
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However, here it may be noted that dequalification does often happen when new technologies replace older ones in one and the same field of activity.
This implies a dequalification of positions, dequalification which can be either only technical or both technical and social.
The process by which someone is forced to work below the level of their skills and qualifications.
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Along the same lines, it appears that by accepting some degree of occupational dequalification in relation to real educational level, and a more or less precarious situation, most young people managed to find work after leaving school, although for the most part by themselves, the ANPE having little effect and then only in cases of particular difficulty.
Dequalification is an imposed status, hitting women hardest in fields historically dominated by men, e.g., medicine and engineering.
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They interpret the liberal code reform as an attempt to reduce dequalifications, especially of the young labor force, by avoiding incarceration ( Steinert 1978).
Apparently, this has become a common phenomenon in the migration context, as many skilled and highly skilled migrants are being employed in under-qualified positions—a widespread practice which feeds into their dequalification and deskilling.
The change in status from qualifying (for something) to not qualifying.
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Thus, it is impossible to create any objective standard as to what particular conditions would justify dequalification of the HMO.
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If the “fiscal requirement” were left open as to content, it would require Fund negotiation ("conditionality" ) of precisely the type that the major rejects — as well as the strong likelihood of periodic dequalifications and requalifications of countries that would be immensely destabilizing.
One of the consequences of this division was the moralistic dequalification of neutrality by both superpowers.
The removal of distinctions; homogenization
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This 'dequalification', which is equivalent to a loss of memory, is also a cultural process.
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For Guattari this democratization is fundamentally capitalist because the systematic dequalification of expression, and its sectorization and bipolarization of values in capitalism, treats everything as formally equal and so 'puts differential qualities and non-discursive intensities under the exclusive control of binary and linear relations.'
We may recall the opposition he drew between Temne conceptions of the landscape – a poetics of space – and Western surveying grounded in a massive 'dequalification' of this poetic character.