The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 523)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 523)

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structure. These five dimensions are: (1) ethnic composition; (2) spa-
tial form (habitat); (3) industry affiliation; (4) occupational structure;
(5) employer (type of capital).
Although vertically differentiated, horizontally they seem to be in
correspondence. Western early settlers and new immigrant Jews do indirectly
benefit from surplus value created by Asian-African Jewish and Arab workers
as cheap producers of subsistence commodities. This indirect exploitation
corresponds. to "West-East" dichotomy of the sources of labor. Palestinian
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Arab labor ‘and Oriental-Jewish workers reside in settlements where standards
of living are relatively lower. The Oriental and Arab labor force is also
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overrepresented in light industries of consumer goods and/or primary pro-
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duction (agriculture and mining). This does indirectly reduce the cost of
production and reproduction in the finishing and high technology levels of
production, where Western settler and new immigrant Jews are overrepresented.
The over-exploitation of the former provides the conditions for lowering
the rate of exploitation of the latter not at the expense of capital.
Benefitting from these arrangements, Western Jews in Israel, likely
to be co-opted by the system and used in perpetuating the status quo, op-
pose the imposition of proletariat alternative because they do have some-
thing to lose. They probably have a stake in the existing arrangements.
This is to be taken into consideration in assessing the conjunctural impedi-
ments of cross-ethnic/national proletariat alliance.
Oriental Jews who are, like Arabs, overrepresented in the production
of basic consumption goods, and unlike the latter, they are engaged neither
directly nor indirectly in sharing surplus value created by Arab labor
(with the exception of the exploitation of farm labor from the occupied

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel

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Najwa Hanna Makhoul

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