The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 321)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 321)
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kibbutzim. "Regional Factory" is a factory belonging to several kibbutzim
in partnership, sometimes together with the Government or a private inves-
tor in addition. Such a factory is built outside the boundaries of any
of the kibbutzim that own it, probably in order to "resolve" the contra-
diction of "hired" labor within the kibbutz by transferring it outside
its boundaries ©” According to Yediot Aharonot (April 13, 1977), the "Re-
gional Factories" of all the kibbutzim consist of ten groups with 165 sub-
sidiary factories, employing 5,000 workers of which only 1,000 are mem-
bers of kibbutzim 63
On the emergence of this phenomenon, Davar (April 22, 1977) reports:
the "kibbutz organization of industry" has decided, with the approval of
the Histadrut, to subcontract the work "which is not appropriate to the
character of the kibbutz" to special factories, which will be situated in
Arab villages of Israel, and which will not be allowed to become complete
plants, but which will be limited only to such work of subcontracting as
will be given them by the kibbutz industries.
This innovative idea of Regional Factories of the kibbutzim must be
seen in the context not only of furthering the reliance on Palestinian-
Arab labor to replace, hence release, kibbutznik labor into managerial
productive labor categories in more strategic kibbutz and non-kibbutz
industry. Rather, it must be also seen in the context of adaptation of
utopian socialist forms to the capitalist transformation of the economy-
at-large and in the midst of concentration and centralization processes.
Of course, the use of these Regional Factories to make invisible
the violation of labor Zionist ideals, specifically the principle of - تاريخ
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- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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