Gershon Shafir is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. His publications include Land, Labor, and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 (1989, 1996) and Immigrants and Nationalists (1995). He is the editor of The Citizenship Debates (1998). Yoav Peled is lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University. His book, Class and Ethnicity in the Pale: The Political Economy of Jewish Workers' Nationalism in Late Imperial Russia, was published in 1989 and he edited Ethnic Challenges to the Modern Nation-State (2000). Both authors have co-edited The New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization (2000).
1. Introduction
Part I. Fragmented Citizenship in a Colonial Frontier Society: 2. The virtues of Ashkenazi pioneering
3. Mizrachim and women: between quality and quantity
4. The frontier within: Palestinians as second-class citizens
5. The wages of legitimation: Zionist and non-Zionist Orthodox Jews
Part II. The Frontier Reopens: 6. New day on the frontier
7. The frontier erupts: the Intitfadas
Part III. The Emergence of Civil Society: 8. Agents of political change
9. Economic liberalization and peacemaking
10. The 'Constitutional Revolution'
11. Shrinking social rights
12. Emergent citizenship groups? Immigrants from the FSU and Ethiopia and overseas foreign workers
13. Conclusion.
