The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 412)
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- عنوان
- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 412)
- المحتوى
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Israel. Im addition to the effects of militarization and the immigra-
tion crisis, another factor that may contribute to decline in the con-
struction employment-multiplier is the increased privatization of hous-
ing, promoted by the emergence of the finance-capital market and the
land market. The subjegation of land (the so-called national land, once
the inalienable property of the State of Israel) to speculation by pri-
vate developers is increasingly accepted by the Israeli public as a leg-
acy of the 1967 War.
One of the implications of the above is the increased transfer of
housing from the public (mainly co-operative: Histadrut, Jewish Agency,
and other absorption institutions) into the private sector. The profit
imperative for the private sector implies the optimization of produc-
tivity through technological innovation, possibly at the expense of en-
ployment~multiplier effect. An interview with Robert Logcher, the head
of a project undertaken by the MIT Center for Policy Alternatives on the
housing industry in Israel, verifies the point regarding the shift from
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housing primarily for Aliyah absorption into housing primarily for profit,
for capital accumulation. According to Logcher, the purpose of the pro-
ject is identifying alternatives of technical innovation to improve the
efficiency of the construction industry upon the request of American in-
vestors in, or indirect contributors to, this branch of Israel's econ-
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omy. In effect, the introduction of technological innovation is likely
to reduce (as in the case of agriculture, also) the employment-multiplier
effect of a future growth in this industry. This development project
emphasizes the fundamental problem in Israel's housing industry as being - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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