The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 513)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 513)

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to this minimum.
(2) Uneven cost of reproduction on daily and generational bases:
the rate of exploitation is not intrinsic to the source of capital. It de-
. pends on the social organization of production in society at large, and on
features peculiar to the social formation, the site of production, consump-
tion, and reproduction. We can illustrate this point by attempting to ex-
plain why in Israel foreign capital ranks lowest in terms of "rate of ex-
ploitation". Unlike the case in most situations, and given the peculiarity
of Israel's social formation, wages and profits do not in all cases have to
stand in an inverse relation with each other. This is so because Israel
consists basically of an imported population and continues to depend heavily
on Jewish immigration. Israel is a net importer, not only of capital but
also of wage and non-wage labor force, both of very high skill and very low
skill, and therefore, the cost of reproduction of labor power in Israeli
industrial production is almost invariably exogenous to the system. To be
more precise, the exogenousness of the cost of reproduction of labor power
applies more directly to European-American Jewish immigrants, who represent
the most highly trained proportion of the labor force with sophisticated
technical and scientific backgrounds, whose labor power is the most costly
to reproduce, as we have argued in Chapter IV.
Capital, therefore, can afford higher wages without altering the wage-
profit ratio, without lowering the rates of profit. This is made possible
partially by the fact that the capitalist employer of this labor in Israel
does not have to include in his cost of production the cost of propagation
and training for the reasons indicated above, and can, therefore, afford
higher wages and maintain the same or higher rate of profit simultaneously

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Najwa Hanna Makhoul

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