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Author Bernstein, Deborah.

Title Constructing boundaries : Jewish and Arab workers in mandatory Palestine / Deborah S. Bernstein.

Publication Info. Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, [2000]
©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series SUNY series in Israeli studies
SUNY series in Israeli studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-266) and indexes.
Contents Current approaches and new directions -- The split labor market theory and its historical grounding -- The split develops -- The split labor market of mandatory Palestine: actors, sectors, and strategies -- Demographic and social trends -- Jewish and Arab labor -- Jewish labor -- Arab labor -- The differential value of Jewish and Arab labor -- The economic sectors of Palestine -- Interrelations -- From sectors back to actors -- Alternative strategies -- Haifa--growing and growing apart -- Early tremors of growth -- Expanding communities and new neighborhoods -- Demographic growth--absolute and relative change -- Spatial growth--the formation of new neighborhoods -- Haifa--the political context -- Spheres of cooperation and the pull of segregation -- Social relations -- Municipal relations -- Economic relations -- Arab and Jewish labor -- Arab labor -- Jewish labor -- Wages and differentials -- In the labor market -- Construction--competing at the work site -- Construction--fluctuation and scope -- Dilemmas of organization -- Wages and competition -- The Borowski Building -- Manufacturing industry--almost separate -- Trends in manufacturing in Palestine -- Jewish industry -- Arab industry -- Mutual impact -- Haifa--the center of heavy industry -- General trends -- Shemen and Nesher--Nahum Wilbush and Michael Pollak -- The tobacco and cigarette industry--Mabruk and Hajj Tahir Qaraman -- When working together -- The Nur Match factory -- The Nesher quarry -- Mosaica tile factory -- The Haifa Port--entering the gateway.
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Subject Labor market -- Israel -- Haifa -- History -- 20th century.
Labor market.
Israel -- Haifa.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Haifa (Israel) -- Economic conditions.
Jews -- Israel -- Haifa -- Economic conditions.
Jews.
Economic conditions.
Palestinian Arabs -- Employment -- Israel -- Haifa.
Palestinian Arabs -- Employment.
Labor movement -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century.
Labor movement.
Haifa (Israel) -- Ethnic relations.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Bernstein, Deborah. Constructing boundaries. Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©2000 0791445399 (DLC) 99037759 (OCoLC)41754602
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0791445399 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
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