The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 538)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 538)
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(c) The electrical industry:
In the electrical equipment industry (which in 1972/1973 included
also electronics), the number of establishments decreased by 2/ percent
(from 340 to 247), while the number of employees increased by 161 percent
(from 7,700 to 20,100). This industry, which is related directly to arms
production, shows more concentration of workers. This is important, as in
high technology production the human capital "engineering" component is the
most intensive input.
(d) The metal industry:
The metal industry requires high-skill technical labor categories and
is directly related to the arms industry; therefore, it is both a politi-
cally and economically strategic industry, and although it requires physical
strength, it employs Jewish, not Arab, labor, unlike the case in other hard
work; construction, for example. Though small in scale, metal establish-
ments are capital-intensive, with high productivity and greater organic
composition of capital than large-scale mass consumer goods production
factories such as textile and food production, where cheaper Arab and Orien-
tal-Jewish labor is absorbed, and it is cheaper to add more of it than to
add machines. It is also consistent that metal production is owned by co-
operative (Histadrut and kibbutz capital) and possibly State capital and/
or State-compensated foreign capital.
In metal products industry, the number of establishments increased
only slightly (1,015-1,030), while the number of workers more than doubled
(12,000-26,500). By 1972/1973, in terms of its gross outputs and number
of workers, the metal products industry was the second largest in the
country (second to food, beverages and tobacco branch). It is, however, - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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