The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 186)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 186)
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as the citurs plantation economy generates demand for labor only during the
harvest season. Furthermore, it is not clear whether or not this seasonal
employment of Arab labor on Arab citrus plantations represents capitalist
relations of production and, therefore, proletarianization.
It is most likely that Arab citrus plantations were based on share-
cropping. In this case, accumulation was based on non-capitalist relations
as it did not involve exploitation of free wage labor.
This is different, however, from the citrus plantations owned by Bri-
tish and Jewish productive capital. In these cases, capital organized the
labor process employing cash-croppers to create surplus value. This was
free wage employment under capitalist relations of production. The employ-
ees were, therefore, agricultural proletariat; more vulnerable, however,
than the industrial proletariat, owing to their subemployment as essentially
seasonal workers.
Palestinian capital remained, by and large, merchant capital, i.e.,
circulation capital. In indigenous manufacture, the petty commodity form
of production, rather than the modern capitalist labor process, prevailed.
Palestinian merchant capital was never transformed into productive capital,
hence the absence of an indigenous industrial bourgeoisie, and therefore of
the possibility of proletarianization by Palestinian capital.
The above leads us to conclude that during the Yishuv Arab labor was
proletarianized only when employed by British or Jewish capital, as only
then were Arabs laboring productively, subject to capitalist relations of
production; only as employees of productive capital were they turned into
productive labor, engaged in the creation of surplus value directly, and
productive labor is the basic (but not only) criterion defining the prole- - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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