Suchergebnisse

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Hebrew Terms -- Prologue. A Personal Account: Reflections on the Design of a Progressive Research Program -- 1. Introduction: Political Spaces and Mo(ve)ments of Resistance -- 2. 1931 - An Arab-Jewish Civil Society Struggle against the British Colonial Government -- 3. 1959 - Wadi Salib Riots: Culminating a Decade of Ethnic Discrimination -- 4. 1960-1965 - The Action Committees' Revolt: Full Employment Crisis, Failed Democratization and State Expansion -- 5. 1971 - The Black Panthers Movement: Ethnic Tensions and "Left-Right" Tribal Polarization -- 6. 1980 - Forum/13 Powerful Workers: Hyperinflation and the Challenge to State Autonomy -- 7. 1987-1993 - The Intifada: The Palestinian Resistance Mo(ve)ment -- 8. 2011 - The J14 Mo(ve)ment: The Emergence of the Occupy Repertoire of Resistance -- 9. Conclusion: On the Dynamics of Political Spaces-Time, Movement, Actors and Masses -- List of Sources -- Bibliography -- Index

This book narrates the political developments in Israel/Palestine since the ascent to power of Yitzhak Rabin in 1992 through to the present. It includes the developments of the peace process and conflict with Hezbollah and Hamas, and how hopes for a settlement have been dashed by the ongoing violence.

Lev Luis Grinberg; co-artistic directors, Leo Lieberman, Rotem Rozental ; producer, Noam Kuzar; executive director, Naomi Bloch Fortis; book design, Adell Medovoy ; Includes index

In Mo(ve)ments of Resistance, Grinberg summarizes both his own work and that of other political economists, providing a coherent historical narrative covering the time from the beginning of Socialist Zionism (1904) to the Oslo Accords and the neoliberalization of the economy (1994–1996). The theoretical approach of the book combines eventful sociology, path dependency, and institutional political economy. Grinberg argues that historical political events have been shaped not only by political and economic forces but also by resistance struggles of marginal and weaker social groups: organized workers, Palestinians, and Mizrachi Jews. Major turning points in history, like the Separation War in 1948, the military occupation in 1967, and the Oslo peace process in 1993, are explained in the context of previous social and economic resistance struggles that affected the political outcomes.

This paper proposes a conceptual distinction of political organizations from state and society, providing an enhanced theoretical framework in the analysis of state autonomy. This theoretical argument is based on an analysis of Israel's transition to statehood, and the development of the relations between the Israeli Labor Institutional Complex (LIC) and the state. Jewish labor organizations were established amidst the historical conditions of a weak (colonial) state and a split labor market, which served to enhance the strength of the LIC vis-a-vis the state and workers. The large political and economic changes that followed statehood and industrialization failed to change the LIC's organizational features. The institutionalization of the occupation and the state's weakness after 1967 can be explained by the compatibility of the new structural characteristics to the institutional needs of the LIC.

En un trabajo anterior sostuve que la combinación de las teorías neocorporativistas sobre las relaciones entre las élites de las organizaciones obreras, los empleadores y el estado con las teorías del mercado dual de trabajo puede asistirnos en la construcción de un marco teórico más compuesto sobre las características de la economía política (Grinberg, 1991-A). Este artículo pretende fundamentar de un modo empírico la combinación teórica y le agrega otro concepto analítico: "el Estado colonial".