Summary
Historian at Tel Aviv University and author of Diamonds and War: State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine (Berghahn Books, first published 2010) (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.5-6).
Details
- De Vries states his research on labor strikes in Palestine led him to Jewish diamond cutters and polishers, whose wartime militancy opened onto his study of the private sector, British colonialism and the war against Germany (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.19-20).
- His research for the book was funded by the Israel Science Foundation, the Labor Studies Department and the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tel Aviv University (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.16).