The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 319)
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- عنوان
- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 319)
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According to Y. Harari, the year 1970 represents a turning point in
Government policy towards industrializing the Arab village, institutional-
izing this shift in 1973 by appointing an Arab citizen (Kamal Qasim) ad-
visor on this affair to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. As a re-
sult, the industrialization process was speeded up, reaching 100 indus-
trial projects, 18 of which were established during the first half of the
year 1976. These industrial projects are no longer restricted to textiles,
as was the case in the past; they are geared towards a larger variety of
products: ceramics and stone-polishing products. Production includes
also fairs, shoes, carpets and diamond-finishing products. This is in
addition to 2,500 small workshops, 80 of which produce bricks, 38 for
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olive oil, etc.
Reaping super-profit by employing oppressed Arab females is probably
the motive for placing Jewish industry in Arab villages. Moreover, mobili-
zation of Arab females into the Israeli labor force does, in effect, coin-
cide with the national demographic objective since it is likely to delay
the marriage age of the now "productive" women. Consequently, the fertility
rate among the Palestinian-Arab population may decline. Child day care cen-
ters are not made part of the government effort to mobilize Arab female la-
bor, as is the case in mobilizing Jewish female labor into the labor force.
The inflow of Jewish industrial capital into Arab villages as a re-
cent alternative to intensifying the outflow of female village labor into
Jewish work places which constitutes only a semi-proletarianization pro-
cess, does also coincide with economic, specifically profitability
considerations. This is because it contributes to minimizing the cost of - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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