The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 377)
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- عنوان
- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 377)
- المحتوى
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to construct houses for their own, applying both skill as well as savings
gained during the construction boom; and many others, specifically the
landless, rushed into purchasing a self-employment means for securing their
future livelihood. Many chose trucks to transport Arab workers into Jewish
work places and in-between to transfer "Jewish" commodities into Arab
residential areas, thus combining both transport and sales as an alterna-
tive form of work.
The growing representation of Arabs in these two labor categories
after the 1967 War can be attributed, in part, to a growing demand in more
attractive labor categories into which Jewish salesmen and transport work-
ers moved, leaving room in their previous occupation to be filled-in by
Arabs. In other part, it has to be attributed to Israel's desperate need
for expanding her commodity market into new Arab frontiers within the
1948 borders and, more importantly, across them into occupied territories.
Palestinian-Arab labor, not only from Israel, but also from occupied ter-
ritories, became in high demand for more effective results in promoting
Arab consumerism towards Israeli commodities. This went even beyond the
occupied territories, into Arab countries through the "open~-bridges"
policy.~> The latter made it absolutely necessary to mobilize workers
from the territories into this employment category.
This point leads directly into the new major element in Israel's
current employment structure, that is, the non-citizen-Palestinian labor
force from the occupied territories. The construction of Table A is the
very first attempt in the literature to reconstruct the employment struc-—
ture of Israel's labor force on the basis of the new realities created - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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