ABSTRACT
The total resources which will be available for education and the social services in the future will depend largely on the success of the Industrial Strategy. Deskilling is part of a long process in which labor is divided and then redivided to increase productivity, to reduce inefficiency, and to control both the cost and the impact of labor. But deskilling is accompanied by something else, what might be called reskilling. This process of deskilling and reskilling is usually spread out over the landscape of an economy so it is rather difficult to trace out the relationships. The best examples of the encroachment of technical control procedures are found in the exceptionally rapid growth in the use of prepackaged sets of curricular materials. The characteristics embodied in the modes of technical control built into the curricular form itself are ideally suited to reproduce the possessive individual, a vision of one-self that lies at the ideological heart of corporate economies.
