The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 56)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 56)

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FOOTNOTES
Chapter I
The significance of these figures gets more exposed when we consider
the following:
(a) That 1963 was the peak of the construction boom during which Arab
citizens were mobilized for the first time into productive employment
and on a massive scale.
(b) That in 1974, only 39.5 percent of the Arab citizens belonged to
the labor force, owing to high birth rates which kept the population
young, as well as to the relatively low rates of female participation.
This may indicate potential surplus labor.
(c) We must also take note of the fact that Arabs do not control their
sources of employment. They are almost invariably dependent on em-
ployment by Jewish capital. The growing size of Palestinian~Arab
employees in Israel is, therefore, an expression of growing demand
for Arab labor among Jewish employers.
78,400 citizen Palestinian wage earners computed by subtracting Jew-
ish employees from total employees, as appears in Statistical Abstract
of Israel, 1975. And 68,000 non-citizen Palestinian wage-earners in
Israel. This figure includes only the officially registered workers.
It excludes illegally smuggled labor totalling around 15,000, as docu-
mented in Chapters III and V.
Kibbutz and private captial in Arab villages in Israel are analyzed
in Chapter VII.
For confirming the penetration of Israeli investment capital into the
occupied territories, see, for example, a recent study by Brian Van
Arkadie, Benefits and Burdens: A Report on the West Bank and Gaza
Strip Economies Since 1967, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
Washington, 1977.
This is my own interpretation of the Borochovist formulation of Zion-
ism, fully explicated in Chapter If.
For references, see, for example:
. Yoram Ben-Porath, The Arab Labor Force in Israel, Jerusalem, 1960.
. Sabri Jiryi, The Arabs in Israel, Monthly Review Press, 1976.
. Henry Rosenfeld, Hiam Hayoo Falahin, 1964.
Nicos Poulantzas, Classes in Contemporary Capitalism, N.L.B., London,
1975, p. 24. In Marx's and Engel's political analysis, the concept
of "power bloc" indicates the particular contradictory unity of the
politically dominant classes or fractions of classes as related to a
particular form of the capitalist state (from N. Poulantzas, Politi-
cal Power and Social Classes, 1975, p. 234.).

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