The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 474)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 474)
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cline in the construction industry. Arabs' labor is being now increasing-
ly integrated into industry, the leading sector of the economy. Figures
on post-1967 employment suggest more permanence, that Arab labor is no
longer a transitory labor in Israel's economy. This is important for our
inquiry regarding proletariat class formation and the potential for al-
liances. It is necessary to examine the extent to which these statistical
indicators are, in fact, reflections of structural changes, a question
that will be examined in a following chapter.
Third, as far as the class meaning of these employment dynamics, find-
ings indicate:
(a) Not all recent penetration of Palestinians into the Israeli labor
market is into productive, manual, non-supervisory labor categories. Pro-
letarianization is, therefore, not the only pattern of class transforma-
tion among Palestinian-Arabs, specifically citizens, A large portion of
the latter is joining the new petty bourgeoisie, and even a larger portion,
despite radical changes in the concrete forms of labor they perform, main-
tain petty bourgeois class locations.
(b) Proletarianization in the post-1967 era is not restricted to
Palestinian-Arabs, It also involves Israeli-Jews, probably owing to con—
centration of capital and capitalist transformation of petty industrial
production,
(c) Proletarianization in both cases, of Palestinian-Arabs and Is-
raeli~Jews, is a transformation from petty bourgeois class locations.
Among Palestinian-Arabs, it is predominantly from peasantry; and among
Jews, mainly from crafts shops,
(d) While proletarianization is the predominant pattern in the post- - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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