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- Title
JUMP-STARTING SOCIETY: POLIO IN ISRAEL IN 1950.
- Authors
NOVICK, TAMAR
- Abstract
The article discusses the effects of the polio disease in Israel in 1950, with information on the social effects of polio which causes infantile paralysis. Topics include efforts to quarantine affected areas; the use of polio fears by the local workers' union to control the movement of immigrants from Yemen, who had a reputation among the Israeli public for not honoring wage agreements; and the role of union wage agreements in the Israeli public's belief that Yemeni immigrants were the cause of the polio epidemic.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; POLIO; LABOR unions; IMMIGRANTS; YEMENI foreign workers; POLIO prevention; EPIDEMICS -- Social aspects; COMMUNICABLE diseases; COMMUNICABLE diseases -- Social aspects; SOCIAL history; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Korot / Qôrôt̲, 2011, Vol 21, p149
- ISSN
0023-4109
- Publication type
Article