Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 313)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 313)

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non-sectarian union. However, by 1930, due to the racist policies of
the Histadrut, the union was disrupted and Arab workers were forced to
form their own separate union. (64)
Through speeches, conferences and other labour gatherings, Arab
labour unions distinguished between Zionist authorities and the Jewish
workers. While Zionism was seen as an ally of British imperialism and
a tool of colonialism, Arab labour bodies tried to present the Jewish
workers as the victims of this movement.
In conclusion, this analysis strongly suggests that no serious
study can adequately understand the history of Palestine without
understanding the indigenous labour movement. Despite the fact that it
was still in its first stages of formation and that it had to flight
both internal and external forces which tried to suppress it, the
Palestinian labour movement did grow and develop. In fact, by the mid
1930s working class power presented itself as an alternative to the
traditional power based on family lines.
The argument that it might not be functional or desirable for
capital to have a free class of potentially organized working class,
and that capital could employ various means, through the state and
other power organizations, to check the growth of such a class’ has
been proven inadequate within the Palestinian context.
The economic history of Palestine provides a particular form of
colonial capitalist settler rule where sheer economic exploitation
was not the only decisive factor. Zionist colonial policies were
materialized in two contradictory processes. For one, these policies
resulted in maintaining Palestinian pre-capitalist relations of
production and consequently exploited indigenous labour power as a
cheap source of labour for the reproduction ind further expansion of
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Nahla Abdo-Zubi

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