The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 185)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 185)

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"Hebrew labor only" were not entirely effective in preventing the penetra-
tion of Palestinian-Arab labor into Jewish economic enterprises and/or in
the complete elimination of existing Arab proletarian employees. It is es-
timated, for example, that by the 1940s the number of Arab wage workers in
the cities was between 35,000-37,000, of whom only 6,000 worked in Arab-
owned industries, 3,000 in Jewish and international concerns, 12,000 in pri-
vate home services, and the rest in governmental and public works. /” From
these figures, it is difficult to guess how many of the Arab workers had
actually occupied proletarian class-locations. We only know for sure that
12,000 private service employees were not proletariat.
Percy Lund provides employment figures in terms that are more helpful
for identifying the class distribution of the Palestine population: in
1931, 59 percent of this population belonged to the peasant class; 12.9
percent were employed in construction, industry and mining (as compared to
30.6 percent among Jews); 6 percent were in transport; 8.4 percent in trade;
and 1.3 percent in clerical work. One may only conclude from these that
the Arab working class constituted then less than 18.9 percent of total
population (industrial, construction, mining and transport workers). >
These figures do not distinguish between the self-employed peasant and
agricultural cash-croppers, employed on the commercialized citrus planta-
tions. The latter, in fact, represent the only "steady" wage-earning seg-
ment of the Arab labor force, in the sense that their source of employment
was guaranteed, as Arab citri-culture remained competitive in foreign mar-
kets, despite the Zionist "boycott of Arab produce" and the popularization
of Tozeret Ha'aretz slogans. This, however, must not divert our attention
from the fact that this "steady" labor force was employed only seasonally,

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