Worker skills exceeding their rank threaten the enterprise’s legitimacy

Evidence

Inadequate skills prohibit production from taking place; worker skills which exceed their level of status and authority threaten the legitimacy of the social division of labor within the enterprise. Thus the patterns of access to and denial of skill training in the firm are important parts of the reproduction of economic inequality. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 893

Categorization

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