The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 453)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 453)
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Elbit, a major software producing industry, was already "manned by 1,150
employees". Similarly, AEL Israel, Ltd., a military electronic industry
with over 900 employees, and CLAL Industries, Ltd., Israel's biggest pri-
vate industrial conglomerate in aerospace production, with 10,000 employ-
ees. ? There is no evidence or counter-evidence regarding demand for
Oriental-Jews in military industrial production. Arabs, however, are not
likely to be employed in such industries, specifically in skilled labor
categories that are directly related to arms production. The evidence on
this is the import of non-Jewish skilled manual labor from France, Yugo-
slavia, and other European countries to replace Jews in metal products
nanufacturing.
Third, and final point, is the lack of detailed industrial structure
of employment with cross-tabulation by occupation and population groups.
Owing to this problem, one can tell very little here about the nature of
class transformation involved in the mobility of Jewish industrial labor
force into services. Based on a previous analysis, it is clear that this
portion of the Jewish labor force that have shunned industry and moved
mainly into public and community services are currently unproductive wage-
earners forming a part of the "New" petty bourgeoisie. We do not know,
however, what labor categories they have previously performed in industry.
Were they self-employed craftsmen in their workshops and upon concen-
tration of industry their small enterprises were swallowed by factories?
In such a case, becoming public service employees implies mobility not
only across economic branches but also across labor categories and class-
locations. From small-scale commodity productive labor into capitalist
unproductive wage-earners; that is, a transformation from the petty bour-
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المنشئ
Najwa Hanna Makhoul

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