The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 407)

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then 210,000, compared to only 205,000 in the following year. Similarly,
in the same year the demand for this Palestinian labor in Israel seems to
reach its peak, 68,000 (not including the illegally smuggled in) then de-
clines from 1975 on.
The industrial structure of the employment of the Gaza Strip and
the West Bank labor force tends to stabilize with the persisting of Is-
rael's post-1973 economic crisis. This tendency towards stabilization in
the structure of demand applies equally to those employed locally as well
as in Israel (see Table F). The above is indicative of the increased de-
pendency of these territories on Israel's economic business cycles. Also,
it exposes the correlation between the deepening of the economic integra-
tion of these territories into Israel's and therefore, international
market, and the speeding up of the proletarianization of their inhabi-
tants.
C. Non-citizen Palestinians in Israel's Post-1973 Industrial Structure
of Employment
Despite the tendency to stabilize the employment structure of the
non-citizen Palestinians in Israel, Column 4 in Table F shows a slight
decline in the relative size of the agricultural labor force balanced
out by a slight increase in that of the construction industry. Two
points are worth pointing out here: first, it is interesting that a
decline in agricultural employment applies to all segments of Israel's
labor force, including Palestinians from occupied territories, who in

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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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