Summary
The Jewish workers’ organisation whose 1905 resolution, in Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics, began the Conquest of Labour: to abandon market rationality in favour of a Jewish-only isolate in Palestine that would reject any labour that was not Jewish (Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics, PDF p.19 / printed p.151).
Details
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The 1905 resolution is Wolfe’s starting point for the Conquest of Labour, cited to Walter Laqueur, A History of Zionism (2003), pp.284-288, and Charles D. Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2007), pp.38-40 (note 57).
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The strategy made no pretence of competing with Palestinian labour on the open market; it depended on a closed, protected and autonomously reproduced circuit of production, consumption and exchange — an exclusive and preferentially subsidised economy — and was taken up by the World Zionist Organization and funded through the Jewish National Fund (PDF p.19 / printed p.151).
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In Shtetl Colonialism: First and Last Impressions of Indigeneity by Colonised Colonisers, the organisation is glossed as the main outfit of the socialist Zionist movement in the Second Aliya, and Neta Harpaz is named as a leading member; his failed joint strike action, and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi’s answer to him, are the article’s case for socialism becoming secondary to the national project (PDF p.11 / printed p.49, note 18).
Related pages
Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics, Conquest of Labour, Conquest of Economics, Histadrut