The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 439)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 439)

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and what is productive and non-productive service, Harry Braverman argues:
"...to hire the neighbor's boy to cut the lawn is to set in
motion unproductive labor; to call a gardening firm which
sends out a boy to do the job (perhaps even the same boy) is
another thing entirely....The change in the social form of
labor from that which is, from the capitalist standpoint,
unproductive to that which is productive means the transfor-—
mation from...simple commodity production to capitalist com-
modity production from relations between persons to relations
between things." 39
Braverman maintains that
" ..labor which is put to work in production of goods is not
thereby sharply divided from labor applied to the production
of services, since both are forms of production of commodi-
ties and of prodcution on a capitalist bases, the object of
which is the production not only of value-in-exchange, but
of surplus value for the capitalist. The various forms of
labor which produce commodities for the capitalist are all
to be counted as productive labor." 40
As far as the class-location of clerical labor is concerned, he
concludes:
'',..while the working class in production is the result of
several centuries of capitalist development, clerical labor
is largely the product of the period of monopoly capitalism."
Braverman, thus, views clerical work as a capitalist labor process, and
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clerical workers as proletariat in new form.
If we accept this argument as well as the notion of contradictory
class-locations developed by Erik Olin Wright, as discussed in an earlier
chapter, then we can reach the conclusion that the recently increasing
labor mobility from industry and agricultural wage work into the service
sector does not necessarily indicate a deproletarianization process. If
so, the joint penetration of Arab and Jewish labor into services may in
some ways (by sharing proletariat or contradictory class-locations) still
promote the prospects for cross-national proletariat alliances.

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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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