The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 403)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 403)

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and more importantly, to become an alternative to the P.L.O. leadership. “>
Contrary to the local, the commuter workers from occupied terri-
tories are mainly and increasingly concentrated in productive economic
branches, distributed equally in agriculture and industry and doubly con-
centrated in construction. In 1973 the Israeli construction industry ab-
sorbed 52 percent of the non-citizen Palestinian labor force employed
during that year in Israel. According to Hilal, in 1972, 57.2 percent of
West Bank workers in Israel worked in construction; compared, for example,
with 19.5 percent in industry. One can confidently conclude that all
these productive (produce surplus value) Palestinian wage workers in
Israel fall undoubtedly within the boundaries of the proletariat class.
The penetration of Israeli agricultural and industrial investment capi-
tal into the occupied territories has inflected changes in the class
nature of those communities, specifically the promoting of peasant and
petty-producers' proletarianization. The integration of these terri-~
tories into the Israeli economy has enlarged the size of their working
class, not only relatively, but also in absolute terms. In Hilal's
estimation, in 1973 there were nearly 60,000 manual workers in the West
Bank, forming around 47.5 percent of its total labor force, and nearly
38,000 in the Gaza Strip, forming approximately 55.6 percent of its
total labor force; that is to say, more than 97.6 thousand (or half the
labor force) were manual workers, of whom 60.8 percent worked in Israel.

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel

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1978

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Najwa Hanna Makhoul

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