Gershon Shafir

The new Israel : peacemaking and liberalization

* Introduction: The Socioeconomic Liberalization of Israel Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peled Part One: A State-Centered Economy * Challenges to Separatism: Joint Action by Jewish and Arab Workers in Jewish-Owned Industry in Mandatory Palestine Deborah S. Bernstein * The Ideological Wellspring of Zionist Capitalism: The Impact of Private Capital and Industry on the Shaping of the Dominant Zionist Ideology Michal Frenkel, Yehouda Shenhav and Hanna Herzog * From Eretz Yisrael Haovedet to Yisrael Hashnia: The Social Discourse and Social Policy of Mapai in the 1950s Dov Khenin Part Two: Liberalization * Economic Liberalization and the Breakup of the Histadruts Institutional Network Lev Luis Grinberg and Gershon Shafir * Liberalization and the Transformation of the Political Economy Michael Shalev * Change and Continuity in the Israeli Political Economy: Multi-Level Analysis of the Telecommunications and Energy Sectors David Levi-Faur * The Great Economic-Juridical Shift: The Legal Arena and the Transformation of Israels Economic Order Ran Hirschl * The Promised Land of Business Opportunities: Liberal Post-Zionism in the Global Age Uri Ram Part Three: The Peace Process * Peace and Profits: The Globalization of Israeli Business and the Peace Process Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peled * Regional Cooperation and the MENA Economic Summits Jonathan Paris

Split Labor Market and the State: The Effect of Modernization on Jewish Industrial Workers in Tsarist Russia

The displacement of higher-priced Jewish industrial workers in the Pale of Jewish Settlement in Tsarist Russia by lower-priced Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, and other workers durign early industrialization is examined in light of Edna Bonacichs split labor-market theory. Studies of split labor market have so far analyzed the opposite phenomenon: the exclusion of lower-priced workers (of a distinct ethnic background) or their transformation into a subordinate caste. This examination concurs with Bonacichs argument that a major form of ethnic conflict is generated in the labor market but demonstrates the necessity of specifying the historical period of capitalist development in which the victory of higher-priced workers, through the formation of a split labor market, is made possible. Such success is dependent on their degree of influence on the state, which, in turn, depends on their location in the productive process and on their level of economic and political organization.

FROM OVERT TO VEILED SEGREGATION: ISRAEL'S PALESTINIAN ARAB CITIZENS IN THE GALILEE

Author(s): Shafir, Gershon | Abstract: AbstractThis articles geographical focus is the Galilee, Israels only region with a Palestinian Arab majority. Its sociological focus is the drive to Judaize this region, the mirror image of its de-Arabization, which I anchor in Israelis’ morbid fear of settler colonial reversal. Although direct legal discrimination—restriction of movement under a military government and exclusion from publicly administered land—was banned by the government and the High Court of Justice respectively, new modes of discrimination against Israels Arab citizens have replaced the older forms. I demonstrate how policies that limit Arab middle-class citizens’ upwardly mobile migration into the Judaized spaces of communal settlements (or overlooks) and towns endure. I compare gatekeeping exercised by national-level indirect legal discrimination operating through the admission committees of communal settlements with the institutional discrimination practiced by municipalities of emerging mixed towns against new Arab residents’ public presence. Finally, I highlight the linkages between instances of Judaization across the Green Line, which make the unwinding of segregation, in all of its forms, that much harder.

Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaking and its Discontents:

Extremists on both sides have made peacemaking difficult, but it is too soon to write off the Oslo formula of “land for peace” as a viable path to a two-state solution.

Nationalism and Non-Racialism in South Africa

At a time when ethnic and national struggles that were long thought extinct are burning out of control, this chapter will discuss a racial cum ethnic cum national conflict that was widely expected to lead to cata-strophic bloodshed but, instead, has so far seen relatively peaceful accommodation. In a volume focused on ‘challenges to the nation state’, I wish to focus upon a phenomenon that seems to have some-thing distinctly old-fashioned about it: an attempt to settle a poten-tially destructive racial conflict by framing it as a project of democratic nation-building. I will seek to show how it is that the African National Congress’ policy of non-racialism, first conceived of in a much more rudimentary form in 1912, is a project of civic nationalism, in short, a venture in civility.