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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lockman, Zachary, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--History--Palestine.

Working class.

Labor Zionism--Palestine--History.

Labor Zionism.

Working class Jews--Employment--History--Palestine.

Working class Jews.

Palestinian Arabs--Employment--History--Palestine.

Palestinian Arabs.

Labor movement--History--Palestine.

Labor movement.

Railroads--History--Employees.

Railroads.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (443 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press 1996

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-07899-8

0-520-91749-9

OCLC:

1414455399