ABSTRACT
This chapter deals mainly with the internal workforce, in particular with the relationship between technology, skills, turnover and wages. The new skills most frequently referred to are those which emerge in the launching of a new technology which may lead to de-skilling in the branches where the new technology is applied. The de-skilling is an historical process which occurs at the global level, particularly when production itself is internationalised. At the heart of de-skilling process of generation and diffusion of new technologies is the capital goods sector. Since most capital goods producers in developing countries are subsidiaries of foreign firms, joint ventures or national firms operating under licensing arrangements, the most skilled part of the labour process usually remains in the central economies. Technology tends to be forgotten that it is at the same time an instrument in the employers' politics of production, an instrument of domination and control of the worker in the workplace.
