The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 269)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 269)

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The scattered information has been usefully gathered for the period 1930 to
1935.' It was estimated that the average total number of wage labor for this period
was about 50,000. Of this, 30,000 were in agriculture and the remainder in
railways, harbors, industry, and construction and quarrying.” However, as Taqqu
notes, these figures “exclude the thousands of peasants who worked seasonally in
various forms of agricultural employment, or in public works in the countryside.”
The second major source of data was the estimates of wage labor during
WWII when there was an increase in demand because of the expansion in all
sectors of the economy but most importantly the increased demand by the
government as part of its overall war efforts. Taqqu compares estimates by the
government’s statistician, the Labor Department, and the Histadrut (General
Federation of Jewish Workers). She concludes that there were about 125,000 Arab
wage laborers in the early to mid-1940s. However, the government employed at
least half of these wage laborers in mostly war-related jobs. In other words, the
latter were to be eventually terminated, and were not a result of a normal growth
in the economy.
Some brief comments should be mentioned about Arab wage labor in
European settler establishments. One estimate puts the total number of Arab wage
labor in European concerns at about 12,000 by the end of 1935. This represented
‘Rachelle Taqqu, “Peasants Into Workmen,” 262-7.
For construction and quarrying, Taqqu lists the figure of 8,900 for 1931 only,
but I used it for 1931-1935 also given the growth in construction during this time
period.
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