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Record Nr.

UNINA9910496150903321

Autore

Lockman Zachary

Titolo

Comrades and enemies : Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 / / Zachary Lockman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, 1996

ISBN

0-585-07899-8

0-520-91749-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (443 p.)

Disciplina

331.6/992

Soggetti

Working class - History - Palestine

Labor Zionism - Palestine - History

Working class Jews - Employment - History - Palestine

Palestinian Arabs - Employment - History - Palestine

Labor movement - History - Palestine

Railroads - History - Employees

Business & Economics

Labor & Workers' Economics

Working class - Eretz Israel - History

Labor Zionism - Eretz Israel - History

Working class Jews - Employment - Eretz Israel - History

Palestinian Arabs - Employment - History

Labor movement - Eretz Israel - History

Railroads - Eretz Israel - Employees - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Zionism and Palestine before the First World War -- 2 . LABOR ZIONISM AND THE ARAB WORKING CLASS, I92O-I929 -- 3. The Railway Workers of Palestine (I): The Struggle for Arab-Jewish Unity, 1919-1925 -- 4. The Railway Workers of Palestine (II): Cooperation and Conflict, 1925-1939 -- 5. Arab Workers and the Histadrut, 1929-1936 -- 6. The Arab Revolt and Labor Zionism, 1936-1939 -- 7. Workers, Labor Movements, and the Left during the Second



World War -- 8 Labor Activism and Politics, 1945-1948 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Comrades and Enemies Zachary Lockman explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. Unlike most of the historical and sociological literature on Palestine in this period, Comrades and Enemies avoids treating the Arab and Jewish communities as if they developed independently of each other. Instead of focusing on politics, diplomacy, or military history, Lockman draws on detailed archival research in both Arabic and Hebrew, and on interviews with activists, to delve into the country's social, economic, and cultural history, showing how Arab and Jewish societies in Palestine helped to shape each other in significant ways.Comrades and Enemies presents a narrative of Arab-Jewish relations in Palestine that extends and complicates the conventional story of primordial identities, total separation, and unremitting conflict while going beyond both Zionist and Palestinian nationalist mythologies and paradigms of interpretation.