The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 303)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 303)
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of the military or the civilian labor force. Here comes the importance
of the technical division of labor, hence the alienation from knowledge
as a means of production. Although military production tends to require
mainly highly skilled labor force, this, however, must not obscure the
generation of the routine unskilled labor category which allows for no
possibility of learning about military production and maintains that un-
skilled segment of the labor force "laymen", civilian labor compared with
the technical military personnel.
An evidence on the persistence of unskilled labor categories within
Israeli military production is found in "Agan", one of the three engineer-
ing works of the Koor Metals, Ltd. Agan's arch panels are made of heavy
gauge galvanized steel products used often as military shelters, and are
41 Another evi-
easily assembled with bolts and nuts by unskilled manpower.
dence, rather within the international division of labor, is found even in
higher technology production. For example, U.S. mini-computers industry,
in which the construction of memory boards from millions of wires requires
immense labor input, is sent to Korea, where unskilled and semi-skilled
labor is abundant and therefore more cheaply available.’ Although in-
volved in military production (probably unknowingly), this is yet to be
considered a civilian mass of labor.
Some vulnerability, however, is implicit in the integration of mili-
tary and civilian production. It lies in the realm of labor unrest and
political instability. Integration results in an inevitable concentra-
tion and centralization (essential for both guaranteeing secrecy as well
as efficiency), and necessarily magnifies the risk involved in labor - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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