The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 13)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 13)
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Introduction
Since the late sixties, the presence of Palestinian-Arab labor in
Jewish work places has become a prominent feature in Israel. The mas-
sive penetration of male and female Palestinian workers from Arab vil-
lages in Israel and from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip into the Is-
raeli labor market is a quite new phenomenon, even with regard to Pales-
tinian-Arabs who are citizens of Israel. In 1974, 84 percent of the ac-
tive citizen Palestinian labor force were wage earners, compared with
only 39 percent in 1963.7 The size of Palestinian-Arab employees in
Jewish work places almost doubles when workers from the West Bank and
the Gaza Strip are included,”
Another related and a more strikingly new phenomenon is the pene-
tration of Israeli-Jewish capital itself (including kibbutz capital) into
Palestinian-Arab villages and towns seeking employment of cheaper labor,
specifically females, This spatial mobility of Jewish capital into Arab
residential places contrasted with the daily commuting of Arab labor into
Jewish work places is a more recent feature distinctive of the post-1973
period of persistent economic and political crisis.
These two phenomena defy a long history of the "boycott of Arab
labor" advocated and practiced by the Zionist movement in Palestine. The
"boycott of Arab labor" has been historically rationalized by an explicit
commitment to the creation of an exclusive Jewish working class in Pales-
tine. Accordingly, Jewish settlers were to refrain from employing native
Palestinian-Arab labor and employ only Jewish labor, In this sense,
Zionist settler-colonialism in Palestine (unlike the typical settler- - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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