The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 455)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 455)

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Despite Jewish labor mobility off industry and the decline of Jewish
employment in this branch, industry remains to be the economic branch with
the highest potential both for proletarianization of Arabs as well as
Jews, hence for increasing the number of those from both national groups
who are joining the Israeli working class. The essential concentration
of industrial capital (necessitated by the two fundamental tendencies of
capitalist accumulation, namely the tendency of the falling rate of pro-
fit and that of the rising organic composition of capital) results in a
constant decline in the size of the industrial bourgeoisie and enlarge-
ment in the mass of productive wage workers who form the modern proletar-
iat. This is so despite the mental-supervisory unproductive labor cate-
gories that concentration does simultaneously generate. In fact, it is
precisely the control of this enlarged mass of labor that forces produc-—
tive capital to employ unproductive wage-earners to supervise produc—
tive labor, and on behalf of capital to maximize the latter's produc-
tivity, i.e., creation of surplus value for capital.
The unproductive supervisory labor force tends to be smaller
than the supervised productive labor force. It is in this sense that
the great majority of wage-earners in industry are productive laborers
and therefore likely but not certainly belong to the working class, the
proletariat. The fact that Palestinians constitute a relatively very
small percent of Israel's industrial labor means that even though cur-
rently they seem to be replacing Jews, who are moving off industry, in
effect an increasing number of Palestinian-Arabs are joining the larger
portion of the Jewish industrial labor force remaining within the boun-
daries of the working class. This means that the cases of Arab-Jewish

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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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