The academic middle-class rebellion : socio-political conflict over wage-gaps in Israel, 1954-1956

The academic middle-class rebellion : socio-political conflict over wage-gaps in Israel, 1954-1956 / by Avi Bareli, Uri Cohen ; translator, Alma Schneider.

"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 sta...

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Main Authors: Bareli, Avi (Author), Cohen, Uri, 1960- (Author)
Other Authors: Schneider, Alma (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Hebrew
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Subjects:
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
Israel > Politics and government.
Israel > Economic conditions.
Israel
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Table of 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.

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