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ANALYSING SKILL INTRODUCTION Skills are crucial for determining the status and pay of occupations and professions, it is also central to the structure of employment and influences gender divisions in society. It is therefore, important to firstly analyse how we come to define skills before we come next week to analyse skill changes in the contemporary workplace. CONCEPTUALISING SKILL An analysis of skill remains one of the most contentious areas of debate in the social sciences. The study of skill integrates an examination of:- 1) the person 2) the job 3) the setting Cynthia Cockburn's (1983) study of print workers distinguishes between the person, the job and the setting. 1) SKILL IN THE PERSON Refers to the individual and therefore involves a number of different attributes including, dexterity and knowledge. This definition views skill as being accumulated over time through education, qualifications, training and experience. This approach is pursued mainly by economists and is typified...

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