The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 452)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 452)
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world of consumption with inflationary prices and devaluation of the Is-
raeli lira increasingly reducing their purchasing power.
Second, we must keep in mind that this information regarding Arab-
Jewish labor mobility across economic branches lacks very important de-
tails, not only regarding cross-tabulation by occupational mobility, and
social forms of labor being performed in the previous versus the recent
locations in the technical division~of labor, but also regarding the spe-
cific industries within the industrial sector, into which Arab and Jewish
citizens are jointly or separately moving in or out. Are the particular
industries into which Arabs, and off which Jews, are moving related or
unrelated to military production?
Are those Jews who are shunning the industrial branch of Western or
Oriental background? Are the entering Palestinian (citizens and/or non-
citizens) industrial labor force joining or replacing Oriental-Jews in
the various industrial labor categories? etc.
An analysis on such a micro-level requires information that is un-
available in official statistical sources. It is very hard to assess the
number of wage-earners in military industries for reasons already dis-
cussed in a previous chapter, as well as because it is likely to be clas-
sified information. From scattered sources we are informed, by the Wall
Street Journal, that by 1969 a minimum of 13,000 were already employed in
Israel's military and aircraft industries. ’° The New York Times reports
the number of Israelis that are said to be employed in the arms industry
to reach 17,000 by 1976.¢/ These figures clearly underestimate reality.
Aviation Week & Space Technology points out that in 1976 Israel's air-
craft industry alone has employed 18,000 skilled persons. Also, that
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- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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