Constructing Boundaries
Subtitle: Jewish and Arab Workers in Mandatory Palestine (S U N Y Series in Israeli Studies)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: April 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780791445402
Subjects: Labour economics; Multicultural studies; Work & labour; Public Policy - General; Labor; Haifa; Discrimination & Racism; Middle East - General; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Jews; Business/Economics; Palestine; History; International - Economics; Labor market; Palestinian Arabs; 20th century; Economic conditions; Employment; Israel
Description: "Constructing Boundaries examines the competition, interaction, and impact among Jewish and Arab workers in the labor market of Mandatory Palestine. It is both a labor market study, based on the Split Labor Market Theory, and a case study of the labor market of Haifa, the center of economic development in Mandatory Palestine. Bernstein demonstrates the impact of the pervasive national conflict on the relations between the workers of the two nationalities and between their labor movements.

She analyzes the attempts of Jewish workers to construct boundaries between themselves and the Arab workers, and also highlights cases of cooperation between Jewish and Arab workers and of joint class struggle."--BOOK JACKET.