Job design,progressive education and the correspondence between work and schooling

The theory of correspondence between school and work assumed a general process of deskilling and job fragmentation, setting up clear demands from industry for workers who were docile and passive rather than creative or adaptable. Critics of correspondence have either ignored this feature of the original theory or assumed a similar process of deskilling. Discussion of job redesign within industrial sociology suggests a more complex picture of the division of labour within industry. This suggests the possibility of other forms of correspondence between education and work and ultimately strengthens recent arguments pointing to the relative autonomy of education.