The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 193)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 193)

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often constitutes the most exploited segment of the labor force, and invol-
ves mainly Arabs and Oriental Jews) did not belong to the working class.
According to Nathan:
"Ever since 1930 the members of the Histadruth, excluding
workers' wives, have accounted for about three-fourths of
all Jewish workers.* An estimated 15 percent of the Jewish
working class were organized into unions separated from the
Histadrut on political or religious grounds...10-11 percent
of Jewish workers, who were unorganized, were largely Yemenite
and Sephardic Jews with the lowest standard of living among
Jewish workers and previously unexposed to trade unionism." 84
These 10 percent of unorganized Jewish workers (Yemenite and Sephardic)
are indispensable to the implementation of the "Hebrew labor only" policy.
This is probably the only segment of the Jewish labor force capable of defy-
ing the competitiveness of the cheap native labor; providing a substitute
for the boycotted Arab labor: the use of Oriental-Jewish labor is very in-
strumental in accommodating the contradictory requirements of capitalist
accumulation and Zionist exclusivism.
It is documented that when Jewish settlers continued to employ Arab
agricultural laborers for reaping super profits, the Zionist movement worked
immediately on mobilizing Yemenite Jews, known to work for wages lower than
Arabs' so that Jewish capitalists switch to maintain the "Hebrew labor"
principle.
This use of Oriental-Jewish labor must not be seen merely as tactical
pragmatism. It is rather built-in as an integral part of the proletarian-
Zionist strategy in its original formulation by Borochov.
In his Selected Writings, on how to begin the actual implementation of
Jewish proletarianization, Borochov points out the Oriental-—Jews:
Workers refers to persons eligible for membership in the Histadruth, the
principal qualification for which is the ideological belief in the non-exploi-
tation of labor.

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