This article aims at identifying certain key features, processes and trends relating to industrial skills occurring within the South African metal industry today. These are, firstly, the marked unevenness of capitalist development in the metal industry, and the consequent co‐existence of varing labour processes within this economic sector; secondly, the occurrence of both deskilling and reskilling tendencies; thirdly, the varying educational and skill requirements of workers in production; and lastly, there is the complex character of 'skills' employed in production ‐constructed by a combination of technical, ideological as well as social factors.
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