Summary
Author of Labour and the Political Economy in Israel (1992), cited in Land, Labor and the Logic of Zionism: A Critical Engagement with Gershon Shafir for the formulation of the labour-Zionist strategy and for the 1950s reservation of jobs for Jews (Land, Labor and the Logic of Zionism: A Critical Engagement with Gershon Shafir, PDF p.17, p.20, notes 19, 22).
Details
- In Lockman’s summary, Shalev’s phrase for the labour-Zionist strategy was a “marriage of convenience” between a workers’ movement without work and a settlement movement without settlers (PDF p.17, citing Shalev, p.35).
- As Shalev has shown, in Lockman’s summary: in the 1950s massive Jewish immigration (mainly from predominantly Arab and Muslim countries) and high unemployment among Jews led the state, working closely with the Histadrut, to try to reserve jobs in the Israeli-Jewish private and public sectors for Jews by barring Palestinian Arabs still living in (and now formally citizens of) Israel from employment therein; the policy was relaxed only when labour shortages developed in the state’s second decade, when Palestinian citizens were finally allowed to join the Histadrut and use its labour exchanges (PDF p.20).
Related pages
Land, Labor and the Logic of Zionism: A Critical Engagement with Gershon Shafir, Labor Zionism, Histadrut, Gershon Shafir