The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 411)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 411)

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tion and construction boom and decline in Israel; and given that 1975
represents the year in which immigration was, probably for the first time,
declining in absolute and relative terms, and also exceeded by
emigration from Israel; as recalled from the analysis of Israel's labor
force in the seventies. In 1974, however, the year following the October
War, the increased representation of non-citizen Palestinians in the con-
struction industry is in part the result of the replacing of citizen by
non-citizen Palestinian workers. While, in the meantime, citizen Pales-
tinians are filling in gaps in services and industry caused by the long-
term mobilization of Jews into the military. Unlike the quick victory
and release of the mobilized labor force into their civilian posts in
the aftermath of the 1967 war, in the aftermath of the 1973 war mobiliza-
tion lasted long, resulting in real manpower loss and shortages.
Although 1976 labor force surveys are not yet available, one can
comfortably expect a decline, or at best stabilization, in demand for
construction workers from the occupied territories, unless in the form
of replacement not a result of new demand in that industry. Demand for
construction workers is more likely to decline in housing than in public
works. One of the usual effects of the militarization of the economy
(as witnessed, for example, in the economy of Massachusetts, one of the
states that has comparative advantage in military production) is the
stagnation of consumer-goods producing industries (housing, shoes, clo-
thing, food industries). There is no reason for this not to apply to

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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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