out damned spot

After reading Braverman's account of Taylorism and the two chapters by Robins & Webster, I think there may be a significant problem with this notion of re-skilling. If I have been reading this all correctly, the process of re-skilling for the new epoch of capital is perhaps too tied up to a particular method of skill, which has been applied top down in the form of scientific management (or human resources management, etc.). If for a moment we consider that re-skilling comes not from the organic knowledge of workers but from the perspective of capital, then what are the hopes of developing the potential of the working classes in the information age? D-W might say that the imposition of this type of re-skilling will always lead to a contradictory response by labor. I am not sure that this would then lead (back?) to a moment when knowledge is possessed by the worker and not capital.