The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 459)
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concrete example from the Israeli reality. Take, for example, Elbit
Companies, Ltd., a major supplier of computer-based military systems for
the country's defense forces, which assumes full system responsibility
from conception, through development, to final production. It is well
known for the high percentage of engineers among its employees. Refer-
ence is to 250 engineers, programmers and system analysts who constitute
22 percent of its total employees.>" Of course, this figure does not ac-
count for all mental labor categories but for the major portion of pro-
ductive mental laborers. Certainly, there are also unproductive mental
laborers involved in supervision, such as quality-control foremen and
also in clerical work. Still, even in this most software-like producing
company the majority of the employees are definitely directly engaged in
hardware material production, not mental productive laborers in the soft-
ware material production.
Another concrete evidence to reinforce the point (that proportion-
ately, mental labor is not the predominant form of labor even in high
technology industries) is the fact that a large portion of the 10,000
employees in Israel's CLAL aerospace industries are, in fact, vehicle
assembly and textile semi-skilled and unskilled workers.>>
We must remember that besides the predominance of high technology in
Israeli military production, Israel is also an exporter of military goods,
the production of which is even more likely to be manual-productive labor-
intensive and low technology. An example of this is the military helmets
industry. In an article titled, "Military Helmets from Mishman Ha'emek to
South America," Al-Hamishmar reports:
"'tama' industries of kibbutz Mishmar Ha'emek won an - Date
- 1978
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- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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