Proletarian Immigrants in Israel, 1948–1961 |
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| Authors: | Amir Ben-Porat |
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| Affiliation: | Amir Ben-Porat received his B.A. degree in sociology and political science in the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and his Ph.D. in Strathclyde Glasgow. He is a member of the behavioural sciences department at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research focuses on class structure, class formation, the state and class-consciousness. He is author of Between Class and Nation (Greenwood Press, 1986) and Divided We Stand: Class Structure in Israel (Green-wood Press, forthcoming). He is currently studying the encounters between state and class in Israeli society and also the formulation of the middle class in this society. |
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| Abstract: | This study deals with the factors which determined the odds of Israeli immigrants becoming proletariat during the first decade of statehood. It is suggested that the factors which determine whether immigrants enter the proletariat or not are structural. Immigrants trom lesser-developed, non-industrialized countries are more likely than others to become or to remain proletariat. Class positions in the countries of immigration and emigration are compared, and various factors are examined as causes of the proletariat position. Such factors include conditions of production in the country of emigration, level of eduratirin, and year of immigration. |
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