Summary
The replacement workforce imported into the Israeli economy under government permits when separation severed employers’ ties to Palestinian workers: 202,000 estimated at the time of Shir Hever’s writing, most of them without permits, against 81,000 Palestinians still working for Israeli employers (Exploitation of Palestinian Labour in Contemporary Zionist Colonialism, PDF p.2-3 / printed p.125-126).
Details
- Construction and agriculture, accustomed to a disempowered and underpaid Palestinian workforce, lobbied when the government began severing those ties (‘Oslo B’) and were appeased with permits to import large numbers of labor immigrants to replace the Palestinian workers (PDF p.2).
- The 202,000 are estimated to be working in the Israeli economy in Israel and in the colonies in the West Bank, most of them without permits (PDF p.3, note 2).
- Israeli businesses within Israel and in the colonies have grown to rely on labor immigrants instead of Palestinian workers (PDF p.3).
- Kav Laoved monitors mistreatment of migrant workers as well as Palestinian workers by Israeli employers (PDF p.2).
Related pages
Exploitation of Palestinian Labour in Contemporary Zionist Colonialism, Separation, Kav Laoved