Withholding revenue transfers forces cuts in public-sector wages for Palestinian workers

Evidence

Israel’s power to turn off the money faucet is ultimately the power to impose austerity on the Palestinian people. The Palestinian Authority cannot provide essential public services and has been forced to cut stipends for public employees, including teachers and health care workers who make up almost a quarter of the Palestinian labor force. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 320

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Defunding public services structurally forces wage-dependence and demobilizes workers — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 145; Welfare cuts paired with corporate bailouts transfer resources from workers to capital owners — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 144; Genocide in Palestine is inseparable from the profit incentive of capital — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 338 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Defunding public services structurally forces wage-dependence and demobilizes workers #expands (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 145
• Bezalel’s founding economics explicitly relied on low Palestinian wages #corroborates (0.75) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 586
• Rate hikes cut social services and weaken workers’ bargaining power via unemployment #expands (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 153
• Welfare cuts paired with corporate bailouts transfer resources from workers to capital owners #qualifies (0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 144
• Genocide in Palestine is inseparable from the profit incentive of capital #responds-to (0.70) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 338