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Strikes and stones: stone quarries in the Southern Triangle as a site for shaping ethnic segregation, industrial relations, and labor militancy in Israel, 1949-1952

Oded MarckThe Department of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, IsraelCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 544-562 | Received 15 Sep 2023, Accepted 27 Nov 2023, Published online: 10 Dec 2023

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