The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 334)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 334)
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civilian economy and the most strategic economic sector in the country.
For security considerations, the shift to military industrialization
urged the revival of the "only Hebrew labor" policy in this expanding sec-
tor of the economy. The intensification of demand for Jewish labor in the
sector of arms and arms-related production, on the one hand, and the short-
age of Jewish labor supply, on the other, are probably responsible for boost-
ing the demand for Palestinian-Arab labor in traditional Jewish industries,
specifically consumer goods production.
Central to this chapter is the argument that transformations in the
composition of the labor force presented an incentive to foreign investment
and high technology military production in Israel. This, in turn, urged
concentration of capital for economies of scale. One implication of con-
centration is more division of labor for further control of the labor pro-
cess. More division of labor implies more and more unskilled labor cate-
gories are generated. Such unskilled labor categories in Jewish industry
were, in the past, performed by Oriental-Jews. Now Israel witnesses an ab-
solute shortage of new Oriental-Jewish labor supply, as well as "maldistri-
bution" of the existing Oriental-Jewish labor stock, reflected in the over-.
whelming tendency to move into public services. In light of this develop-
ment, the growing generation of unskilled labor categories compels the
Israeli ruling class to mobilize the reservoirs of Palestinian labor which
it has historically boycotted. This analysis points out a possible corre-
lation between shortage in unskilled Oriental-Jewish labor force and the
demand for unskilled Palestinian labor force. It is not profitable to
deskill new Jewish immigrants, coming predominantly from advanced capital-
ist countries. This point is demonstrated later on, as it belongs to the - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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