Is De-Skilling Necessary?

I've been thinking about the idea that re-skilling ultimately might not have a great deal of impact on the relationship between labor and capital. Originally, in the Marxist conception, de-skilling was one way for the factory master to enhance control over his work force. As Robins and Webster outline, with the development of technology, the factory master's arsenal of tools of control has expanded exponentially. In an environment where the corporation has so many novel ways of establishing control, maybe de-skilling is no longer necessary.

The methods of control at the corporation's disposal have become more like a continuous network of control, and I think that this plays well into the concept of the social factory. R&W talk about the "potential combination of work, leisure, and consumption functions in the domestic information terminal," leading to an erosion of the distinction between production and reproduction. Therefore, under the guise of "flexibility," the corporation manages to extend control over every aspect of the worker's life. When you're able to convince your employees that they should be open to the possibility of thinking about work anytime/all the time, and have an unlimited capacity of surveillance over that work, who needs de-skilling?