The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 512)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 512)

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labor power. Wages are the price of a certain commodity, labor power. Wages,
therefore, are determined by the same laws that determine the price of every
other commodity. The actual price of commodity fluctuation always above
and below the cost of production; but the rise and fall reciprocally balance
each other. The fluctuation of wages corresponds to the flucuation in price
of commodities in general. But within the limits of these fluctuations the
price of labor power will be determined by the cost of production, in this
ease, by the labor time necessary for production of this commodity: labor
power. The cost of reproduction of labor power is the cost required for the
maintenance of the laborer as a laborer, and for his education and training as
a laborer. Therefore, the shorter the time required for training, up to a par-
ticular sort of work, the smaller is the cost of production of the worker,
the lower is the price of his labor power, his wage. In those branches of
industry in which hardly any period of apprenticeship is necessary and the
mere bodily existence of the worker is sufficient, the cost of his production
is limited almost exclusively to the commodities necessary for keeping him
in working condition. The price of his work will, therefore, be determined
by the price of the necessary means of subsistence. The cost of reproduction
of simple labor power amounts to the cost of the existence and propagation
of the worker. The price of this cost of existence and propagation consti-
tutes wages. The wages thus determined are the minimum wages. This minimum
wage, like the determination of the price of commodities in general by cost
of production, does not hold good for the single individual, but only for
the race. Individual workers, great numbers of them, do not receive enough
to be able to exist and to propagate themselves; but the wages of the whole
working class adjust themselves, within the limits of their fluctuations,

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel

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