Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 203)
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- Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 203)
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althcugh Britain throughout the 1930s was still considered the major
importer of citrus, absorbing 68 pex cent of all Palestine's citrus
exports, other Eurcpean markets were also expiored. Between 1932-38
citrus from Jewish groves was also exported to other European markets
such as Germany, dHoliard, France, Romania, Poland, and Sweden
(Brown, 1937:141).
The conditions in the Arab groves were quite different. The forces
involved in the production process in an ordinary Arab grove included
the land owner, the contractor (Mutaa'hid) who hired the workers,
another intermediary referred to as (Mutadammin) who shipped and
marketed the produce, the pickers, packers and one or two carpenters
who made boxes or cases. (31)
The contention that the Palestinian growers were in a slightly
better position than Jewish farmers, since cheap labour was more
available to them, is only partly true. The fact which must be borne
in mind here is that the fallaheen were forced to lower their standard
of living and sell their labour at a low cost in order to survive at
all.
The gap created between the Jewish and the Arab branches of the
citrus industry, resulted in a situation whereby the less developed
capitalist branch began gradually to go out of business.
During the late 1920s and early 1930s, competition on the local cr
national market was not the only force the Arab citrus growers had to
deal with. International competition which occured in foreign markets
and particularly in Lendon also took its toll on the Arab growers.
The flooding of the Spanish citrus into the major traditional market
for Palestine's citrus closed the main source of export to the
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- Nahla Abdo-Zubi
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