The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 514)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 514)

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(higher than the one he could afford if the cost of reproduction were done
otherwise).
This explanation is, however, inadequate. It does not take into con-
sideration anything except determinants inherent in the cost of reproduc-
tion on a generational basis. It also treats the determinants of the rate
of exploitation unilaterally, not in the context of overlapping arrange-
ments in the social formation, the site of production, consumption and re-
production. By overlapping arrangements, we refer to the facts that for-
eign capital is associated predominantly not only with European—American
immigrants, but also with metropolitan habitat, high level of skill, high
technology industries distinguished by final levels of production for the
export market and, therefore, with minimal "Forward Linkages".
Considering these associations reveals far deeper dynamics and pro-
vides for a more adequate explanation. This simultaneous rise in wages
and profits is then explainable partially by the resulting increase in pro-
ductivity, and partially by the following fact: that the basic consumer
goods (housing, food, clothing) in urban and metropolitan centers are mainly
produced by labor from settlements with lower standards of living, or more
precisely, whose labor power is less costly to reproduce. This, in turn,
lowers the price of those commodities that determine subsistence cost of
urban workers. Consequently, the latter can be kept down at the expense
of worker-producers of these subsistence commodities, not at the expense of
the high technology producer. This is to say, by means of over-exploita-
tion of workers engaged in the mass consumer goods production, not only the
foreign employer of those workers is guaranteed greater realization of
profit (the sale of goods under conditions in which all surplus value pro-
duced by the worker is actually paid for by their purchasers), but also the

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel

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Najwa Hanna Makhoul

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