The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 64)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 64)

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The latter was not, according to Metzer, the case in Palestine. In Africa, “The
colonial administrations typically used their power of coercion to legislate and
enforce property rites in land and to regulate key aspects of the land and labor
markets. ”!”!
In Palestine, the Jewish settlers were faced with unregulated labor and land
markets. Thus, they had to purchase land, and did not have the power to regulate
the labor market as witnessed for example by the only partial success to exclude
Arab labor. However, Metzer acknowledges that, in some respects, the effects of
Zionist policy in the labor and land markets were similar to those in settler
colonies: the involuntary dispossession of tenant-cultivators and the “persistence of
wage differentials” in the labor market.’ In addition, unlike the settler colonies,
the “economic edge” of Jewish European settlers was derived from their “own
comparative advantages” and not because of government allocations and actions.
Thus, Metzer tells us what he thinks European Jewish settlement was not
but does not clearly say what it was, except that “the economic history of Palestine
{was such that] mostly European Jewish immigrants established a modern economic
entity under the Mandatory umbrella, separate from the indigenous
population. ”!°
Tbid., 201.
Tbid., 202.
Ibid., 201.
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