Dequalification

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.

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.

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.

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.