The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 304)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 304)

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unrest and sabotage. This, in turn, increases the need for repressive
measures, including "layoffs", and the call on State intervention for, using
Manuel Castell's expression, "the socialization of the cost and the privati-
zation of the profit." 43 This issue is directly related to the "political-
business-cycle" and the fiscal crisis of the State, affecting, in turn,
the 'economic-business-cycle", a series of contradictions to which we will
return later on.
It must be kept in mind that labor unrest is reinforced by the decline
of unemployment rates. Under capitalism, a certain rate of unemployment
is systematically maintained precisely for its disciplinary function--disci-
plining the labor force. It follows that labor unrest is highest under con-
ditions of full employment. These conditions are promoted by the expansion
of the military as it absorbs the surplus population, hence the diminishing
of labor reserves. These dynamics in the Israeli realities are most evi-
denced in the figures on labor unrest characterizing the post-1967 War in
general, and the post-1973 economic/political crisis in particular.
It is important to indicate that absorption of the surplus popula-
tion by the military (for security considerations) applies most to the Is-
raeli-Jewish labor force and least to the Palestinian-Arab labor force.
In fact, the expansion of the military makes more room in the civilian la-
bor market, furthering the demand for Arab labor. Both the availability
of unmobilized reserves of Palestinian-Arab labor in Israel, as well as an
unlimited supply of non-citizen Palestinian labor in occupied territories
under conditions of severe political vulnerability, provide for the ut-
most disciplining of the Arab labor force. This fact is evident, for ex-
ample, in the lack of labor unrest in the construction branch, where

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel

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Najwa Hanna Makhoul

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