The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 419)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 419)

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security and compensatory social benefits for work injuries. Of course,
the physically tough nature of work in this economic branch makes it only
rational for Jews who are the less vulnerable not to be attracted to this
industry, thus when demand emerges, the abundantly available Arab labor
is the more likely to move in.
Fourth, although during some periods Israel has had the highest rates
of building in the world, the construction industry in Israel is yet not
a stable one. In fact, it can be accurately described as a "seasonal"
employment-generating industry; expanding and declining in response to
dramatic events such as wars and immigration. The latter are themselves
seasonal in the sense that they seem historically to be linked with Is-
rael's economic and political business cycles. It is in this sense of
uncertainty that the construction labor force ought to be a vulnerable
one. The layoff of Arab labor in periods of decline does not inflict as
equally high a stress on the Israeli society.
In addition to construction and agriculture, industry comes as the
third of productive economic branches penetrated by non-citizen Palestin-
ians in Israel. As demonstrated by the figures in Table F, in 1975 in-
dustrial employment does for the first time since occupation exceed the
- agricultural employment of the labor imported from the territories. The
latter is due not to an increase in the percentage of industrial workers
among non-citizen Palestinians (which, in fact, has remained constant
from 1973 through 1975), but, simply, to the dramatic decline witnessed
in agricultural employment (from 19 percent in 1974 to 15 percent in 1975).
The October War seems to intensify the penetration of non-Palestin-

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel

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Najwa Hanna Makhoul

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