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193007
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The Histadrut was founded in 1920 to organize the so-called Zionist conquest of labor, which aimed to exclude Palestinian workers from the economy. While this ideology was central to the Yishuv, labor shortages and settler-colonial expansion following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 led to the integration of Palestinian workers in the workforce. Focusing on the construction industry, this article explores the ways in which the Histadrut’s contemporary membership structure, collective agreements, and relationship to the Israeli state serve to further institutionalize a highly racialized and segregated sector. Palestinian and migrant construction workers toil in dangerous circumstances for low pay, without union protection, and under the supervision of unionized Jewish managers and engineers.
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161384
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This article examines the short- and long-term effects of the 1967 Six Day War on the Israeli economy. In the short run, the war led to a very big increase in aggregate demand (mainly military expenditures). This got the economy out of a Keynesian recession that prevailed before the war. There were several long-term effects. The French embargo on arms shipments to Israel, following the war, induced the development of a large military industrial base, which later became the basis for the impressive development of the high-tech industry. The influx of Palestinian workers into Israel depressed wages of unskilled workers, which slowed down the shift to more efficient production techniques (especially in construction). It also increased the dependency of the Palestinian economy on income earned by Palestinian workers in Israel.
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