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Spatially strong: Dead Sea Works Ltd. and the building up of the southeast of Israel, 1948–1964

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Bar-On Maman, Shani

Labor History

2018

59

4

August

437-453

relocation of industry ; history ; economic geography ; chemical industry ; political power

Israel

Industrial enterprise

https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2018.1422381

English

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"This is the story of the formative years of one of Israel's big corporations – the Dead Sea Works Ltd. (DSW). It concerns the interrelations between space and labor, told through an account of four transitions: (1) The transfer of the company from England to Israel with its establishment in 1952; (2) The move of its central office from Jerusalem to Be'er Sheva; (3) The dismantling of the original workers' camp near the factory (in Sodom) and the move of the workers' dwellings to three different towns; and (4) The transfer of representation from Tel Aviv to Be'er Sheva. The case of the DSW, I argue, is a ‘geohistory' of labor that exemplifies the construction of the northeastern Negev's social space, especially the making of scale. This ‘scale-making' was an ongoing process of scaling up (from the local to the regional) and scaling down (from the global to the state level, and from the center to the periphery). Through this process of scale-making, the workers of the DSW gained a great deal of power and became spatially strong."

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