The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 228)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 228)

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textile plant located in Maalot and other neighboring New Development Towns
which, by 1973, employed more than 1,000 northern West Bank women. In 1973,
some 6,000 women flooded the agencies in Gaza demanding work?
Most Arab women workers occupy unskilled labor categories. Specifi-
cally, in textile and food-processing factories, where wages are even lower
than those on fruit plantations. In Gaza, men rush to the orchards to do
harvesting work, not to the trucks that carry women workers from Jabalya
or Beit Hanah to the Israeli canning factories.-?° Arab female workers are
forced to accept the least desirable, lowest-paid work. Previous discus-
sion on smuggled labor is most evident of the vulnerability of female labor,
specifically from occupied territories, in the case of which traditional
patriarchal oppression is combined with political oppression by military
occupation. Sex, class, and national oppressions coincide.
In villages where the mobilization of women to Jewish work places is
impossible because traditions still hold strictly, or undesirable because
the Israeli authorities are careful not to offend the traditional leaders,
a case which is particularly true of Druze communities!’ crafts workshops
and small textile and clothing factories are being transplanted in these
communities to utilize their female labor reserves. Jewish national capi-
tal in Israel is thus running after cheap female labor in the Arab rural
villages, following precisely the pattern of international capital mobility
into the world-dependent periphery.
As Yousef Waschitz points out, Israeli-Arabs are socially and econo-
mically part of the Third World. They have been marginal and, at best,
indirect beneficiaries of Israel's national development processes; and ex-
cluded from actual development projects. He indicates that the State of

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel

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Najwa Hanna Makhoul

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