Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 299)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 299)

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sections of the working classes were facing extreme levels of
exploitaticn. Unemployment was high, underemployment was widespread
and the economic conditicns were in general very poor.
Yet, the poorest paid among the workers, it was shown, were the
indigenous Palestinians. These workers, rural and urban proletariat,
semi-peasants and fully expropriated peasants alike were all placed
under worse conditions than their Jewish counterparts. This finding,
in fact, suggests that there is more to the exploitation of the
indigenous Palestinian working class than the mere factor of the
internal village structure as various authors suggest.
As the following shows, racial discrimination served as an
effective means of further depreciating the value of Arab labour
power. Both the colonial state and the Zionist authorities practiced
racial discrimination against the indigenous Palestinian working
population.
Racial Discrimination in the Labour Force
The discrimination against the indigenous Palestinian workers on
national or racial grounds was systematic throughout the economy. Arab
workers were faced with an open policy of racial discrimination
practiced against them not only by the Zionist authorities but also by
the colonial state.
The commcn belief that government departments of public works,
notably its War and Police departments during the second World War,
provided relief to the masses of indigenous workers (Kimmerling,
1983; Taqqu,1980) is only partially true. Neither in general, nor in
this particular example, was the government, to say the least,
concerned with Arab employment.
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