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Author Bareli, Avi, author.

Title The academic middle-class rebellion : socio-political conflict over wage-gaps in Israel, 1954-1956 / by Avi Bareli, Uri Cohen ; translator, Alma Schneider
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Contents 1. Distributive justice and the white-collar workforce: the outbreak of conflict -- 2. The 'engine-coach car' dilemma: MAPAI's discourse on class, ethnicity, and modernization -- 3. "In torn soles on a marble floor": the Guri Committee and Sharett government debates on white-collar workers' wages, 1954-1955 -- 4. "On your mark!" public discourse after the 1955 elections -- 5. "If they strike-so be it!" the socialist pact to thwart the Guri Committee recommendations -- 6. A class-inclusive strike
Summary "This new research investigates socio-political and ethnic-cultural conflicts over wage gaps in Israel during the 1950s. The Academic Middle-Class Rebellion exposes the struggle of the Ashkenazi (European) professional elite to capitalize on its advantages during the first decade of Israeli statehood, by attempting to maximize wage gaps between themselves and the new Oriental Jewish proletariat. This struggle was met with great resistance from the government under the ruling party, Mapai, and its leader David Ben-Gurion. The clash between the two sides revealed diverse, contradictory visions of the optimal socio-economic foundation for establishing collective identity in the new nation-state. The study by Avi Bareli and Uri Cohen uncovers patterns that merged nationalism and socialism in 1950s Israel confronting a liberal and meritocratic vision"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Wages -- Israel
Ashkenazim -- Israel -- Attitudes
Sephardim -- Israel -- Social conditions
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Economic history
Politics and government
Sephardim -- Social conditions
Wages
SUBJECT Israel -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068700
Israel -- Economic conditions
Subject Israel
Form Electronic book
Author Cohen, Uri, 1960- author.
Schneider, Alma, translator
LC no. 2017047503
ISBN 9789004357853
9004357858