Tables showing Employment of Casual Labor By Municipal Corporation, and Contracts Awarded By Municipal Corporations in Palestine before 1948 (Nakba), British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 779. Chapter XVII: Labour And Wages: Section 8: The Employment of Arab And Jewish Labor By Government Departments

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113. Tables 9 and 10 below show the employment of casual labour and the number of contracts awarded by the lour large municipalities of Jerusalem, Haifa, Jaffa and Tel Aviv during the

three financial years :-

EMPLOYMENT OF CASUAL LABOUR BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.

Table 9.

-------- Non-Jewish labour --,-~ Jewish labour

FINANCIAL year

and No. of I Amount No. or I Amount

municipality man-days of man-days of

worked wages worked wages

Jerusalem No. .£P. I No. £P.

1942/43 71,169 13,231 38,272 7,217

1943/44 66,806 28,213 ' 38,347 16,160

1944/45 67,164 30,757 38,782 16,360

Haifa

1942/43 174,548 55,390 32,428 13,098

1943/44 172,342 87,945 26,916 22,674

1944/45 I 180,948 109,562 42,124 35,859

Jaffa 1

1942/43 67.463 I 16.706 7.807 2.943

1943/44 70,456 23,472 1,751 902

1944/ 45 70,667 I 28,058 814 I 320

Tel-Aviv 1942/ 43 1943/ 44 1944/ 45

50,900 27,350

- I - I 43,550

37,000 21,300 37,000

CONTRACTORS AWARDED BY Municipal Corporations.

Table 10.

Financial year I Non-Jewish firms I Jewish Firms Mixed firms

municipality contracts amount contracts I mount contracts Amount
Jerusalem No. £P. ?\o. £P I No. I £P.
1942/43 I 21 8,800 15 10,582 - -
1943/44 I l4 6,029 15 1,542 - -
1944/ 45 21 17,750 22 13,097 - -
Haifa I
1942/ 43 12 755 52 4,081 6 4,812
1943/ 44 21 4,316 40 12,273 9 6,260
1944/45 10 4,026 36 5,314 1 8,681
Jaffa
1942/43 15 3,855 4 2,917 - -
1943/ 44 14 7,337 6 4,453 - -
1944/45 11 5,742 5 8,220 - -
Tel-Aviv
1942/ 43 - - 5 2,042 - -
1943/44 - - 11 35,370 - -
1944/ 45 - - 18 66,244 - -


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