The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 230)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 230)

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shortage in male labor, but declining in the three following years during
the economic boom. 14? And it is my impression, through personal contact,
that it is rising again since the deepening of the post-1973 crisis.
Fourth, a breakthrough in squatting and family labor mobility. The
demand for Arab female labor combined with a more important factor, i.e.,
landlessness resulting from increasing land expropriation for settlement
and "Judiazation" schemes, has encouraged whole-family squatting on Jewish
farms and plantations in West Galilee and the coastal regions. These Arab
families live in huts or tents and move about in search of seasonal employ-
ment as cash-croppers (and sometimes even as share-croppers, which may not
designate proletarianization). The labor of the wife as well as the child-
ren is absorbed in cash-production and in the reproduction of the labor
power sold to the Jewish capitalist farmer.
The following excerpts from an article by Baruch Nadel in Yediot
Ahronot give some feel for this rural squatting phenomenon and the new
transformations in the division of labor within the Jewish agricultural
sector, accompanied by a simultaneous evolution of racist attitudes among
the young Jewish generation, who are moving off manual work to be replaced
by Arab squatting labor on Jewish farms. Concrete examples are derived
from Yesud~HaMaalee, where the journalist has visited and talked with the
Arab squatters and with their Jewish employers. Nadel writes:
"In Ysud-HaMaalee, founded ninety-three years ago, Jews
work with machines now, and Arabs do the manual work.
Life is not easy for Jews, too, although there are no
more epidemics and the romanticism of farming and barn
have ceased to exist. The first settlers learned tilling
the land from their Arab neighbors and were ploughing
as they did, sowing, harvesting as they did, and the
bread was wonderful. . .The fields of Ysud-HaMaalee are
scattered with bizarre tents. Big tents are pitched in

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