The rise of the Industrial Revolution led to many advancements and progression in society. However at the same time, industrialization meant many people losing jobs and being replaced by machines in a factory. Although the factories still needed workers, the actual skills that people like shoemakers had needed to start learning how to run machines instead of how to provide the actual skill. The topic of deskilling is something discussed a lot in my Social Structures and Globalization course this semester. We learned about Karl Marx who talked a lot about the uniqueness of items being taken away because everything was made by a machine in the same way and by the same machine. This did help production be faster and broadly help our quickly populating world with supplying resources, but it took away common skills from people today. Today, we’re witnessing a lot of outsourcing of these factory jobs which I’m guessing will be a repeat of the dislocating of skills that we witnessed in society a few years ago. Factory workers will be outsourced (already are) – the start of the sustainability project we’re living introducing today.