The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 220)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 220)

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er is paid less. It is harder to reach the quotas, and the chance for pre-
miums is smaller than in picking. Since an industrious worker from Gaza's
output is twice the requirement, it brings a saving of tools and supervision
to the employer.
Women workers from Gaza are already in textile factories in Kiryat
Gat. This outflow of labor has destructive and discouraging effects on
the local agriculture. Orchard owners of the Strip are having difficul-
ties finding workers to complete fruit picking, and the employed age in
the Strip's orchard has gone down to ten; i.e., children are employed for
rock-bottom wages in order to secure the continuation of the picking. The
ratio between manpower resources and labor demand can be maintained in
equilibrium due to the policy of employing refugees. Today, no less than
20,000 refugees from all the camps in the Strip are registered in the of-
ficial Labour Exchange, and the majority are hired in seasonable jobs in
the Strip and outside. The number of desperate job-seekers constantly
calling at the agency for any kind of job reached, at a point in 1970,
4,000 workers. This number does not include 6,000 women flooding the
agencies with their demand for jobs; most of them want to work in order to
improve the family income and to survive more easily in the competitive
race against the cost of living. When the main breadwinner of the family
has trouble facing the cost of living on his income, his wife and/or child-
ren join him. And, indeed, the sewing workshops, engaged families in con-
fection job work ordered by big factories in Israel, are hiring hundreds
of women from Gaza. This is also the case in the rug and light furniture
factories, which are crowded with boys. The Israeli Labor Ministry has
also opened six training centers in the Strip which produce skilled trades-

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