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- Title
The Decline of the Israeli Labor Movement: Mapam as a Test Case, 1954-77.
- Authors
Elmaliach, Tal
- Abstract
This article seeks to explain the demise of the Israeli labor movement during the two decades prior to the elections of 1977, which marked the rise of the Israeli right. I focus on a specific test case: Mifeget Ha-po'alim Ha-meuhedet (United Workers' Party), or Mapam, and its allied kibbutz movement, Ha-kibbuts Ha-artsi-Ha-shomer Ha-tsa'ir (Kibbutz Movement of the Young Guard). Although Mapam and Ha-kibbuts Ha-artsi were not the largest factions in the Israeli labor movement, they shared a similar socio-political power structure with the other parts of the labor movement, based on the model of a socialist mass party combining political, economic, and ideological elements. The structural element was key to the collapse of the Israeli labor movement, and the Israeli case is representative of a broader crisis of the left in the Western world in the second half of the twentieth century.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; LABOR movement; MIFLEGET ha-po'alim ha-me'uhedet (Political party : Israel); ELECTIONS; KIBBUTZIM; MIFLEGET poale Erets-Yisrael
- Publication
Jewish Social Studies, 2017, Vol 22, Issue 3, p71
- ISSN
0021-6704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/jewisocistud.22.3.03