"Real unions": Arab organized labor in British Palestine. (1946)
From: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
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Date: 1/1/1998
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Author: Power, Jane
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The labor movement and labor unions in Palestine under the British occupation are evaluated. Arab employees experienced severe difficulty at the end of World War Two in 1945 as the benefits of wartime production evaporated. Labor strikes in British Palestine were reflective of an active labor movement in the country that contrasted starkly with the absence of any labor union or movement there roughly in 1926.
In Palestine, as in the rest of the world, the end of World War II brought hard ...
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