The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 196)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 196)

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= n ker Alliances:
As a result of Jewish purchase of agricultural land, many thousands of
Arab peasants became landless (see Chapter One), and most sought jobs
as unskilled labourers in the towns, in particular the two ports of Jaffa
and Haifa, and in commercial centers. Many others had to maintain their
livelihood and to supplement their agricultural income by finding off-
farm work, as short term, or seasonal day labourers, so as not to lose
their base on the land.” These were not "pure" peasants in the economic
structure for they assumed a dual economic role as peasants and as
casual workers.
These two groups, the peasant workers who travelled to towns to
work and the casual workers, were affected socially and politically by
entering the wage labour market, and this in turn affected and developed
their forms of mobilisation and the forms of their alliances. When these
migrant peasants lost their lands they also lost their immediate social
base as they left their villages, as well as the protection provided to them
by their clan alliances. In the towns they needed other allies, in a
different form of alliance which was not clan based. Their fellow
workers, the town proletariat were possible allies who shared the same
social conditions with them and who also suffered from the Zionist
Settler Colonisation (see Chapter One). Thus both the migrant peasant-
workers, and the towns workers shared the same national, social and
political interests.
The other important factor which affected peasant-workers’ forms of
mobilisation and alliances was that in the towns they were exposed to
different and more advanced forms of social and political mobilisation,
and new ideologies. They began to join organisations, associations and
workers unions which were based on a broader and more developed
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20 Sarah Graham-Brown, "The Political Economy". p.114.

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources

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1990-10

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Sonia Nimr

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