The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 517)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 517)
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of (a) and (b) invested elsewhere.
In the bottom of the hierarchy, and with the highest rate of exploi-
tation, comes local private capital as employer of Arab labor, be it inside
Israel or in territories occupied in the 1967 War. This is true both in
industrial and agricultural enterprises that produce basic consumer goods
for Local market and agricultural vegetable plantations for the European
market. ‘This reaps super-profits, especially by employing Arab females.
Highest rates of exploitation apply also to the small-scale textile and
embroidery factories recently penetrating traditional Arab villages and
small towns, appropriating female labor on the very site of reproduction of
their labor power, and without altering the cheap basis for the reproduction
of male labor power. Arab female workers are then forced to continue to
contribute directly to the creation of commodity labor power through domes-
tic labor, while they are directly engaged in the creation of surplus value.
In order to further comprehend how and why Israeli private capitsl
reaps super-profits form Palestinian labor, we have to examine the use of
two systems of labor: (a) the commuter labor system: Palestinian-Arab labor
(from within or across the Green Line) in Jewish work places is almost in-
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variably commuter labor.” This is directly related to locations in the so-
cial formation as a whole; to the question of habitat. In the basis of the
commuter labor system is the “essential” Jewish/Arab residential segrega-
tion of workers in the country. This applies both to citizen and non-citizen
Palestinians alike. Habitat segregation is essential in the sense that
historically the Jewish Yishuv was formed as a "closed" community; Jewish
colonial settlements were obviously for Jews only. New Development Towns
were transplanted in the heart of Arab-populated regions on Arab land, - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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