The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 482)
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Statistical Abstract of Israel, 1975, pp. 336-7, Table XII/31 (en-
closed).
Ibid., p. 337. Remember that the average wage of the Arab worker
is still lower than the general average wage in an economic branch,
since in all economic branches the average year of schooling (an
important determinant of wage level) is much higher among Jewish
than Arab labor in all economic branches. The differentials in
years of schooling are the lowest, however, in the service sector;
as evident in Table XII/28, mentioned in footnote No. 30.
The Palestinian-Arabs represent 25 percent of the productive labor
force employed in Israel, as estimated by M. Eter, the Economic
Editor of the Jerusalem Post. It is not clear, however, whether
or not his use of "productive" labor refers to the same definition
as ours; that is, labor engaged directly in the production of surplus
value, or simply all those employed in productive economic branches.
Although the use of an alternative migratory labor force has already
begun to replace Jews in industry, as mentioned previously, this is
not likely to be done on a massive scale in the near future, and if
it does happen, it will, anyway, shake up the class foundations of
the Jewish State--its material base--as is happening today in South
Africa. A national proletariat is strategically imperative for the
survival of settler-colonial regimes.
Recall the type of industries mentioned already in Chapter IV, p. 47.
And for the Kibbutz Regional Factory, p. 49.
Quoted from "Arabs Who Work in Israel," by Ami Shamir, Israel Maga-
zine, Vol. 4, No. 17, 1972, pp. 20-26.
Arab students at the Technion (Haifa Institute of Technology) can at
best be trained as construction engineers. Usually, they are not
admitted to industrial engineering fields, chemical, mechanical,
electrical, nuclear, etc. When, in recent years, a few were admitted
to such fields or merely to the natural sciences, they were restric-—
ted to theoretical training and denied, however, the practical
training. The Techneon students' newspaper ( ) reports
the discontent of the Arab students’ committee over the crossing-out
from the lists of students approved for field trips into factories
for observation and practice.
Although the controversy regarding the class-location of the new
wage-earning groupings, including service employees, exists not only
among Marxists, as presented in the text, but also among bourgeois
social scientists, the essence of the controversy is entirely differ-
ent within each of the two groups. All Marxists agree that these
employees are not bourgeoisie. The controversy lies in whether these - تاريخ
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