The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 434)

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contrast with each other, as a negative correlation exists between the two
branches.
E. Transport and communication is the productive economic branch into
which Arab penetration seems to grow in a more stable manner than in other
branches, fluctuating not in response to specific events. As reflected
also in the occupational structure of employment, it seems also in this
table that it is becoming increasingly unattractive to Jewish labor, hence
Arabs are increasingly moving in. Due to the small size of the country,
transport and communication can never become an economically strategic eco-
nomic branch. In other words, transport workers in Israel are not likely
to become a powerful trade union with the bargaining power truck workers in
the United States or, for that matter, in Chile enjoy.
F. The highest rates of change in the Arabs' post-1967 industrial
structure of employment lies in their penetration into the service sector,
specifically personal services. While the size of the personal service
employees declined by 7 percent among Jews, it grew by 305 percent among
Arabs (Row C, Column 7). In the eight years prior to the war, the contrary
was true. Jews were more strongly attracted to this kind of employment
than Arabs. In 1975, the Arab labor force, totaling then 9.7 percent of
Israel's citizen labor force, has constituted 11.3 percent of all personal
service employees, an over-representation by a factor of 16 percent. Per-
sonal services thus becomes the third of the economic branches in which
citizen Arabs are over-represented, the other two being construction (by
194 percent) and agriculture (by 146 percent).
In interpreting this pattern of labor, average wage may be a factor.
Personal services are in the very bottom of the country's wage structure.

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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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