The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 537)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 537)
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taken to imply that large-scale industry did not at all exist in Israel.
As we recall from Chapter III, a few large-scale mining industries already
existed in the Yishuv (British Mandatory concession industries). Large-
scale industry, however, has been the exception not the rule in Israel.
Only 2 percent of the enterprises employ from 100-300 and more workers.
Moreover, /3, or 0.7 percent, of the factories have over 300 workers. They
together employ about 20 percent of the industrial workers. Most of these
big factories are foreign-owned.
During the Yishuv, the emphasis on small-scale production derived from
a political rationale: the imperative of Jewish capitalization/proletarian-
ization and the requirements of this process. It was, in a sense, determined
by the state of development, and the requirements of, the productive forces
at the disposal of the Yishuv as an essentially "closed" economy.
In the nation-building phase, a top national development priority was
the absorption of masses of Jewish immigrants; their dispersion on the new
territorial base acquired in the aftermath of the 1947-48 War. Small-scale
production was then encouraged by the Government as it well suited the popu-
lation dispersal objective and Aliyah absorption needs. Until then, policy
requirements were still overriding profitability considerations.
The 1967 War has paved the way for the penetration of foreign invest-
ment capital. The well-established nation-state was then to serve the
internationalizaiton of capital to encourage penetration of monopoly capi-
tal with foreign firms.
The state of development, and requirements of, the productive forces
(at the disposal of Greater Israel, so victoriously emerging from only a
six-day war) resulted in the indispensible tendency towards concentration. - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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