Breaking down jobs into smaller units, each to be tackled separately, so that low levels of skill—and therefore cheaper labour—are required for restricted tasks. ‘When combined with the separation of residential ownership from direct control, deskilling meant industrial capital could draw on a much larger pool of labour over much broader geographic space’ (Moore (2002) Antipode 34, 2). Man (2004) Women’s Studs & Int. Forum 27, 2 suggests that deskilling is also an inherent part of Canadian immigration policy. Although L. Grossman (1998) questions the assumption that contract farming necessarily brings about deskilling, Hendrickson and Heffernan (2002) Sociologia Ruralis 42 claim that the deskilling of farmers is well advanced in parts of the USA. Epp in R. Epp and D. Whitson, eds. (2001) refers to the political deskilling of rural communities through neoliberal political reforms.