The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 449)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 449)

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Arabs employed in agriculture constituted 23.9 percent of Israel's total
agricultural labor force, while 18,500 Arabs constituted only 6.9 percent
of the country's industrial labor force and 25,300 Arab workers constitu-
ted 28.5 percent of the entire construction labor force, 15,600 constitu-
ted only 5.2 percent of the total public and community service employees,
while only 7,700 of them constituted 11.3 percent of the total personal
service employees, etc., as in Table K-3.
On the level of the individual economic branch, we see, for example,
that in absolute terms the additional 2,300 Arab citizens entering the
industrial labor force in-between 1973 and 1975 do not even suffice to
fill in the gap left by the 3,500 Jewish citizens who moved-off industry
during that period. A loss of 1,200 persons in the citizen industrial
labor force remains unreplaced.
The continuing decline in Jewish employment in industry may be a re-
sult of an increased productivity in high technology production, hence a
decline in the demand for skilled Jewish labor, who in turn moves into
public administration and defense, education, research, and scientific
services (the latter might be directly linked to military-industrial pro-
duction; for example, industrial research and development precisely for
the furthering of industrial productivity). Between 1967 and 1976, Israel
seems to maintain the fastest industrial production growth even in com-
parison with the most advanced capitalist countries like the United
States, West Germany and Japan, as in Illustration I-G.
For further evidence on the increased share of industrial production
in Israel's GNP, the New York Times (December 19, 1976) reports that in
1976 Israel arms exports were said to be $300 million compared to $40

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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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