The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 417)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 417)

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services, or for that matter, in industry itself. In the former case,
the replaced and the replacing workers are, indeed, joining each other in
the social division of labor--both falling within the boundaries of the
proletariat class; in the latter, however, the replacement is not only in
the technical division of labor but also in class location. The former
is likely to promote the prospects for proletariat alliance between those
moving into and those moving out of the construction labor force, while
the latter case is likely to impede such alliance between a becoming-—pro-
letariat and those moving into (or out of and into) non-proletariat class
locations. It is hard to tell, since both the service and the industrial
labor force of Arab and Jewish citizens seem to expand in 1974.
Summing up the employment dynamics in the construction industry is
also raising questions regarding the political/economic rationale behind
the existence of the highest demand for Palestinian-Arab labor (both citi-
zens and non-citizens) in construction work. The official and popular
liberal Israeli views are often heard to attribute this disproportionately
high demand for Arab hands in construction to their being traditionally
skilled in this trade, pointing out as evidence the sophistication and
beauty of the indigenous traditional Arab house. This rationale loses its
validity in light of the rather much higher demand in this branch for
labor force specifically from the occupied territories in the unskilled
and, at best, semi-skilled construction labor categories.
For a more accurate answer, therefore, it is worth pointing out the
following:
First, the average wage in construction is relatively high. In 1974,

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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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