The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 467)
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of Palestinian wage-earners in Israel, The fact that the proletariat con-
stitute a minority among Jewish wage-earners in Israel may point out the
place of Israel as a partner in central capitalism or as a subimperialism
and not as the typical dependent capitalist periphery, If we include the
60,000 non-citizen Palestinians employed during 1974 in Israeli productive,
manual, non-supervisory labor categories, the size of Palestinian-Arab
proletariat employees then more than doubles, reaching 110,098, or 75.2
percent, of all officially registered Palestinian-Arab wage-earners in Is-
rael, totalling in that year 146,400. ° This segment of the labor force
enlarges the size of the proletariat among all employees inside Israel
from 36.3 percent to 44.3 percent.
In 1974, 30.6 percent of all proletarian wage-earners in Israel were
Palestinian, Palestinians then constituted only 15 percent of the labor
force. They were thus ever-represented in the working class. Over-repre-
sentation in proletarian locations applies not only when non-citizen Pales-
tinians are included. To a lesser degree, it applies also to citizens who
in that year constituted 9.6 percent of Israel's citizen labor force, yet
16.7 percent of its citizen proletarian employees.
The figures on Palestinian proletarian employees in Israel include
only officially registered workers. They exclude labor smuggled in with
no work permits from labor exchange offices and who, therefore, do not ap-
pear in official statistics. It is not clear, however, whether Palestin-
ian workers smuggled by Israeli employers represents free wage-labor or
non-wage slave-labor, in which case it is not proletarian.
Moreover, if we are to assess the contribution of non-citizen Pales-
tinians to the size of the proletariat within the boundaries of “Greater - Date
- 1978
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- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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