The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 443)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 443)

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petty bourgeoisie. This point does not apply to all those employed in
public and community services. However, in the case of financing, real
estate and business services, this is more likely to apply to Jews than to
Arabs, while in the personal services, especially in cases of lawyers and
medical doctors, and even more recently, advertising services, it applies
to Arabs alike; the increasing mobility of Arab citizens into personal
self-employment services is partly a transformation or return into petty
bourgeois class-locations. While petty bourgeois Jews, especially Orien-
tals, are moving from self-employment in agriculture and retail trade into
public services, hence transforming their class-location, becoming the
"New" petty bourgeoisie.
Second, although we agree with Poulantzas that not all commodity pro-
duction involves productive labor (his argument against Braverman's), we
disagree with him, however, on his assertion that service is exchangeable
only against revenue, and that within the sphere of circulation there can
be no productive labor categories. We insist that the cook as personal
service employee in a restaurant, which is unlike the cook service in the
household, and even unlike the waitress in the same restaurant, is a pro-
ductive laborer. Engaged in the creation of surplus value, her labor-
power is exchanged against capital. So is, also, the laundry-
woman/man in the hotel. Both are engaged not in transfer of surplus
value through service delivery. In fact, they do not themselves deliver
the service directly; they are engaged only in its production, their ex-
ploitation promotes accumulation, not realization of surplus value already
accumulated. The garage repair service employee is engaged simultaneously
both in the production and delivery of the service, in the creation of

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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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