The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 429)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 429)
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inforce the conclusion suggested by the analysis of non-citizen Palestinian
employment in Israel. That is, the prospects for cross-national proletariat
alliance are greater during periods of rapid economic growth, not decline
and stagnation. Because it is in such periods that Palestinian-Arabs and
Israeli-Jews experience the highest rates of joint penetration into the
productive branches of the economy.
A comparison between two periods of economic crisis before and after
the 1967 War (Row D and G) in addition reinforces the conclusion reached
above; it points out an increased dependency of Israel's industry on Pales-
tinian-Arab labor in the post-1967 era (Column 2).
During the post-1973 political and economic crises, and while Jewish
employment declines by one percent, Arab industrial employment increases
by 12 percent. This is very different from the pre-1967 recession, when
Arabs' employment in industry declined by 7 percent to make room for Jewish
labor. The 12 percent increase in industrial employment balances out for
their declining employment in construction.
The integration of Palestinian labor into Israel's industry can only
increase, and the dependency of the former on this labor force is an irre-
versible one. The latter point is based upon at least two of several trans-
formations occurring since the 1967 War in the country's industrial produc-
tion: the transfer of industries inappropriate (certainly in terms of pro-
ductivity or profit) for Jewish labor into Arab separate residential locales,
mentioned above. And the indirectly related but more important shift into
high technology military production, into which skilled Jewish industrial
labor force is to be mobilized, leaving gaps in the less strategic indus-— - Date
- 1978
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- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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