The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 546)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 546)

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into a collective management and/or bourgeoisie. This transformation, how
ever, is likely to promote proletarianization among both Arabs and non-kib-
butznik Jews who are now to replace the members of the kibbutzim who are
ceasing to be non-capitalist productive manual/mental laborers and are be-
coming unproductive capitalists.
Another significant development in the political economy of the kibbutz
is the recent decision by the Kibbutz Organization of Industry, with the
approval of the Histadrut, to subcontract the work "which is not appropriate
to the character of the kibbutz" to special factories, which are to be situ-
ated in the Arab villages of Israel. This development is expected to in-
crease the localized proletarianization of citizen Palestinians in a direct
way.
These two developments in the political economy of the kibbutz have
special bearing on our analysis:
First, they signify an explicit legitimization of the kibbutz as essen-
tially an employer, contrary to its known image as a self-labor-based unit
of production.
Second, through the Regional Factory being located external to the social
boundaries of any single kibbutz, and through subcontracting to factories
located in Arab villages, the kibbutz community rids itself of the visibility
of the social, political and ideological contradictions involved in the use
of hired labor, specifically Arab. Removing hired labor from the kibbutz
dining room has also an economic dimension. The development of Regional
Factories rids the individual kibbutz of the daily cost of feeding its hired
labor force, which can otherwise be (at least morally) unavoidable, given the
employer's communal form of subsistence. The subcontracting of work to fac~

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel

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Najwa Hanna Makhoul

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