The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 159)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 159)
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tine was required to be economically self-sufficient, that there was an im-
petus to invest in local industrial and agricultural production. In 1945,
therefore, Arab and Jewish citrus production had, for the first time, level-
led up .27
Arab industry, however, continued to lag behind, and even at a moment
of economic boom it was not transformed into large-scale modern forms of
production.
Table Y. Uneven Jewish Versus Arab Industry in Palestine During the Yishuv
Jewish Industry| Arab Industry} Foreign Industry
Employed Labor Force 13,678 4,117 2,619
Total Production 6,046 1,545 1,215
Net Production 2,445 313 1,106
Fixed Capital 4,391 703 5,799
(capital investment,
by thousand pounds)
Machine Power 40,644 3,914 133,128
(by horses)
Wages and Salaries 1,008 122 274
Source: Government of Palestine, A Survey of Palestine, Vol. I, p. 499.
Copied from Yassin, op. cit., p. 163. Date of Survey unknown.
In 1942, Palestine's Arab industry consisted of 1,558 establishments
engaging 8,804 persons; an establishment/employee ratio that is indicative
of the predominance of small-scale commodity form,-> amounting to only 10
percent of total industrial produce in Palestine.~“
These figures express
the persistence of a structural weakness in the Arab industry from earlier - تاريخ
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- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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