The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 360)
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- عنوان
- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 360)
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striking evidence of decline or stagnation in the period between 1963 and
1967, versus expansion in the period between 1967 and 1971. Those fig-
ures are consistent with reality, the expression of historical events,
a severe recession following the end of the construction boom, reaching
its sharpest point in 1966 and the first half of 1967 exploding in the
form of the expansionist Six Day War of June. The latter, in turn, re-
sulting in a net territorial gain, reservoirs of cheap labor, concomi-
tant with large inflows of capital and trained manpower, all together
steering the economy and beginning a new economic business cycle -- re-
flected in the rates of expansion in the period following the war, In
light of the 1963-1967 period figures, one can confidently conclude that
when it strikes, recession hits Arabs harder than Jews, The demand for
Arab craftsmen and industrial workers declined at a rate of 14 percent,
compared with an increase of 1 percent in the demand for Jews in that la-
bor category. Similarly, during the same economic crisis, the demand for
miners and even construction workers declined by 33 percent in the case
of Arab labor, compared with only 17 percent in the case of Jewish labor.
These indicators, again, reinforce our point regarding the relatively
higher instability characterizing the Arab, as compared with the Jewish,
structures of employment. The Arab structure of employment seems more
responsive to external sporadic push-and-pulls than to the internal de-
velopment of the labor force in terms of skill and aspirations. Unlike
that, one observes a systematic pattern in the direction and rate of
change within the Jewish occupational structure of employment that seems
to derive from both the internal development of the labor force as well - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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