The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 52)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 52)

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completely on land and in other ventures that were leased from or supported by
official Zionist institutions. In the privately owned enterprises, this policy was not
completely successful.
According to Metzer, in 1921, 14 percent “of all persons employed in the
Jewish economy were Arabs.” In 1931, it was 10 percent, but, more importantly,
represented “20 to 23 percent of all wage earners in the Jewish economy,” and
those were 8 to 10 percent of the total Arab wage labor. In 1935, the “12,000
Arabs . . . employed by Jews . . . accounted for about 5 percent of the entire
labor force, and for about 8.5 percent of all persons employed in the Jewish
economy that year.” Those Arab wage laborers comprised 15 to 17 percent of
all wage labor in the Jewish economy and 11 to 15 percent of total Arab wage
labor.
Thus, “these figures clearly demonstrate that the unskilled labor market was
far from segregated,”® which means that the Jewish labor-only policy was not
completely successful (i.e., could not exclude Arab labor but succeeded in limiting
their numbers). The wage gaps “strongly suggest that the labor market, if not
segregated, was definitely ethno-nationally segmented.” This allowed Jewish
employees to “recoup part of the cost” of hiring Jewish workers by paying less
wages to Arab workers. The “supply of unskilled Arab labor imposed an effective
“Tbid., 130-31.
“Ybid., 131.
Tbid.
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