The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 227)
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patriarchal oppression, imprisoned in household servitude and subsistence
or semi-subsistence production, are now set free; "free" to sell their
labor power to the Israeli-Jewish capitalist and even to be smuggled in as
seasonal cash-croppers on Jewish agricultural plantations and as modern
wage workers in Israeli textile and food-processing factories.
These women who have been historically subjugated to the traditional
extended-—family norms such as el-Sharaf and el-Ard (the honor of the fam-
ily) are now, in response to economic necessity, being released. Women
from the Arab villages in pre-1967 Israel have promoted accumulation of
Jewish capital in Israel indirectly, through their traditional role in
terms of reproduction of male labor power already directly engaged in Is-
raeli capitalist production. This is particularly true of females in rural
working class families, simply because of capital relation to domestic la-
bor.+>? This point is nicely elaborated by Carmen Deere. In her words:
"Rural women's subsistence production in the capitalist
periphery allows semi-proletarian male workers to sell
their labor power to capitalist units of production for
less than the subsistence familial wage. Thus women's
contribution towards the maintenance and reproduction
of labor power within the rural labor reserve permits
the non-capitalist mode of production [the pre-capitalist
social formation] to absorb the costs of production and
reproduction of labor power. The division of labor by
sex, based on the articulation between modes of produc-
tion, serves to lower the value of labor power for capi-
tal, enhancing the relative rate of surplus value for
peripheral capital accumulation." 136
Nowadays, Palestinian-Arab women, in addition, not instead, are engaged
also directly in Israeli capitalist production. According to Emile Touma,
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more than 14,000 of the Israeli-Arab women are now modern wage workers.
In the period between 1967-1972, 7,000 Arab women entered industrial
work 18 A typical example of female recruitment is the large Gibour nylon - تاريخ
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