Israeli restrictions collapsed Palestinian agriculture from 40 to 3 percent of labor

Evidence

The transformation of the Palestinian labor force is another element that benefits Israel. Over the years, the Palestinian economy has been rendered structurally incapable of employing its own workers, who must turn to whatever employment Israel decides fit to offer. Self-sufficient agricultural communities have seen their livelihoods disappear. Land confiscations, which peaked between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, and restrictions on trade, investment, and water access caused the collapse of the Palestinian agricultural sector. In 1967, nearly 40 percent of the total labor force worked in agriculture, a number that dropped to less than 20 percent by 1993 and to 3 percent in 2017. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 325

The transformation of the Palestinian labor force is another element that benefits Israel. Over the years, the Palestinian economy has been rendered structurally incapable of employing its own workers, who must turn to whatever employment Israel decides fit to offer. Self-sufficient agricultural communities have seen their livelihoods disappear. Land confiscations, which peaked between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, and restrictions on trade, investment, and water access caused the collapse of the Palestinian agricultural sector. In 1967, nearly 40 percent of the total labor force worked in agriculture, a number that dropped to less than 20 percent by 1993 and to 3 percent in 2017. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 325

Categorization

• XREF: The deliberate de-peasantization of the Palestinian workforce parallels the kind of structural transformation that serves capitalist class discipline.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 325; Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 325