The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 543)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 543)
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for higher productivity.
Contrasted with this is the diamonds industry, where only Jewish work-
ers, predominantly Western and early settlers, are employed. It seems
cheaper to introduce technological innovation and expel (lay off) labor.
This is only an observation that can reinforce our earlier conclusion re-
garding the differential rates of exploitation affiliated with different
sources of capital, industries, ethnic groups, and their reproduction sites.
A more relevant point to the objective of the proceeding chapter is
that these transformations seem, by and large, to intensify the proletarian-
ization process; the number of industrial wage workers is growing, not de-
creasing; the size of the working class is expanding, not shrinking. One
can infer from these processes that these transformations are increasingly
proletarianizing not only Arabs but also Jews. This inference is especially
valid in light of capitalist transformation of the pre-commodity forms of
production previously prevailing in Israel. This analysis therefore re-
veals findings that are complementary to those in Chapter V.
We must keep in mind that this presentation is based mainly on pre-
1973 statistics and reflects features of the economic boom. It does not re-
flect the effects of the post-1973 economic crisis. More recent transforma-
tions in other aspects of Israel are following and may reveal some of those
effects.
A final point is to recall that these transformations that are taking
place in Israel today are very similar to the ones that were taking place
in Diaspora and eventually gave birth to proletarian Zionism, the theoreti-
cal-ideological basis of this social formation. - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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