The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 363)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 363)

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recession on the Arab population, hence erasing the scars of discrimina-
tion between Jewish and Arab citizens and blaming it all-in-all on a
conjunctural recession. In the post-1967 economic boom we witness an
enlargement at a rate of 56 percent of the Arab labor force, compared
with 17 percent in the Jewish labor force, in spite of the stimulating
effect of the Six-Day War on Jewish immigration into Israel. This is
indeed an expression of a disproportionate growth in the demand for Arab
labor in a period of rapid economic growth.
We are, of course, aware of the fact that technically, the high rate
of expansion in the Arab labor market is, in part, a reflection also of
the previous decline in their labor force participation and not only of
real processes, such as labor force maturity, the mobilization of Arab
female labor, and the reactivation of the previously dismembered workers.
The comparison between changes in the Arab labor force before and after
1967 does, therefore, indicate a measure of economic flexibility that
the regulation of its use displays in that system of accumulation.
Another example on this matter is to be seen in the growing demand for
administrative/clerical Arab labor by 200 percent prior to the War;
although such high rate of change in the demand for Arabs in this occupa-
tional category must be attributed, in part, to their poor representation
in this occupation in previous years, as demonstrated earlier, it is part-
ly to be viewed as the indirect effect of Jewish mobilization into the
military at that time.
The increase in the demand for Arab labor in this occupational cate-
gory is probably restricted to clerical and low-management levels, re-

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