The skilful unskilled labourer
The Decline of Artisanal Discourses of Skill in the NSW Arbitration Court, 1905-15
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2746558 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Maddison (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Issue | 93 |
| Pages | 73 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-6942 • E-ISSN: 1839-3039 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/27516228 |
| OpenAlex | W2126659570 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
For several centuries artisanal meanings dominated Anglophone discourse on skill. By the start of the twentieth century this dominance was being eroded. The records of the New South Wales Arbitration Court show that older artisanal meanings were losing the credibility that they used to have and were being contested by new understandings of skill more attuned to the commodified labour regime of industrial capitalism. Heydon's apparent oxymoron reflected his position as a mediator of these changes, trying to balance the historical stability presented by artisanal classifications, with the taxonomy that was developing to describe new and more-intensively commodified industrial realities
Arbitration · Capitalism · Commodification · Credibility · Dominance (genetics) · Economics · Economy · Political economy · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2010 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |