The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 466)

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and other grounds; that is, the "global reach" of the unit of monopoly
capital, the so-called "multi-national" which is so (i.e., multi-national)
insofar as it employs a multi-national labor force, specifically in prole-
tarian social forms of labor (productive, manual, non~supervisory). It is
wrong, therefore, to talk in terms of an “American" working class and its
size compared with the bourgeoisie, for example, which is an essentially
U.S.-based international monopoly controlling the labor process of an inter-
national labor force engaged in production for United States companies
within the United States (immigrant workers, especially illegal aliens) and
within very many other national boundaries. The latter may explain the
underlying reason behind the objectively small size of the American working
class; and it may also explain the incredibly large portion of the American
labor force that occupies supervisory positions in the social division of
labor.
According to Wright himself, almost half of the economically active
population in the United States are supervisors; only 51.9 percent are
non~-supervisory wage-earners, Maintaining only a small working class as
a privileged labor aristocracy is likely to be the ultimate bourgeois stra-
tegy to prevent the imposition of a socialist alternative at home, unless
through immigrant workers,
One may suggest, in light of the above, that the minority size of the
working class (the actual proletariat in Poulantzas' criteria) is peculiar
to the centers, as compared to the peripheries of world capitalism; to ad-
vanced capitalism as compared to dependent capitalist peripheries. This
is only an hypothesis for future research,
In Israel's social formation, the proletariat are the great majority

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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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