Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 281)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 281)

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The Formation of the Indigenous Palestinian Working Class
The inciplent formation of the Palestinian proletariat began in the
late 193th century with the development of capitalism in argiculture.
In 1690 there were about 4090 Arab families living and working in the
settlement of Rishon Lezicon which was aiso pepulated by 40 Jewish
families. In 1911 about 1,000 temporary Arab workers were employed in
the settlement of Petah Tekva which had 600 Jewish residents
(Kimmerling,1983:44). Yet, it was only during British colonialism that
the actual formation of a large force of indigenous Palestinian
working class took place. Partly due to heavy taxation and the
forceful expropriation of the peasants and partly due to the Zionist
land policy which resulted in the “extra-territorialization" of the
land (3), many peasants were driven out of their land and became
totally dependent on wage labour.
The indigenous Palestinian proletaria were not excluded from the
capitalist economy. Rather, due to the increasing demand for labour, a
large section of this proletariat was absorbed by beth the state and
the European Jewish capitalist sectors. Johnson-Crosbie's findings
quoted earlier estimated the landless, who were totaliy dependent on
waae labour for their subsistence, at about 29 per cent cf the total
rural population. They also found that among the 47 per cent of the
peasants classified as land owners, a large part had to supplement its
income through wage labour. (4)
Although, officially, the Zionist authorities in Palestine refused
to accept Johnson-Crosbi's findings for ideological reasons, some
Israeli writers, notably, Sussman, found these figures to be largely
accurate. Sussman believed that during the 1920s over 20 per cent of
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