The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 409)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 409)

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the early years of occupation seemed to flood Jewish agricultural planta-
tions in the private and co-operative sectors (recall debates in section
3 of Chapter 2). During the period between 1968 and 1973 the relative
size of non-citizen Palestinians in Israeli agricultural employment was
constantly growing and exceeding both that of the Jews and the citizen
Palestinians. Such increasing penetration of non-citizens into a de-
clining economic branch, from which both Arab and Jewish citizens were
moving away, is likely to indicate that the portion of citizen agricul-
tural labor forced out of that economic branch was replaced by labor
imported from the occupied territories. Of course, the latter were
entering agricultural production as proletariat, while in the case of
the former, a self-employed labor force is most likely to be the one
shunning agriculture and entering other branches as industrial proletar-
iat or service employees where demand for labor was very high. In this
sense, the apparent replacement in the technical division of labor is
not coinciding with replacement in the social division of labor. This
exit/entry flow of agricultural labor force may imply precisely that both
groups are joining modern proletariat class locations.
Second, the decline in agricultural employment regarding all the
segments of the labor force, starting after the October War, can be in-
terpreted both in terms of the rising organic composition of agricultural
capital, manifesting itself in an increased productivity and mechaniza-
tion. The latter, made possible precisely by the very extraction of

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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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Theses رسائل ماجستير ودكتوراه