Between Conflict and Collegiality: Palestinian Arabs and Jews in the Israeli Workplace

by Asaf Darr

Overview

Between Conflict and Collegiality explores how ethnonational-religious struggle between Jews and Palestinians affects relations in ethnically mixed work teams in Israel. Asaf Darr documents the tensions that permeate the workplace and reveals when such tensions threaten the cohesion of the work environment. Darr chronicles the grassroots coping strategies employed by both Jewish and Palestinian through field studies conducted with workers in various sectors in Israel, adopting a comparative method that identifies the differences in how ethnonational-religious tensions play out.

Between Conflict and Collegiality asks how workers deal with external ethnonational and religious pressures and whether the broader ethnonational conflict is reflected in the career expectations and trajectories of minority group members. Darr examines whether minority group members' use of their own language at work become a point of contestation; how religion is manifested in the workplace; whether co-workers from different ethnonational groups form amicable relations that extend beyond the workplace; and whether positive experiences working in ethnically mixed workplaces have the potential to mitigate conflict in the wider society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501770753
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	07/15/2023
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Asaf Darr is Professor of Sociology at the University of Haifa. He is author of Selling Technology.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Introducing Tension into the Workplace
2. The Grassroots Coping Strategy of Split Ascription
3. Ethnonational Background and Career Trajectories
4. Language Use as a Symbolic Arena for Ethnonational Display
5. Religion at Work
6. Building Bridges across the Ethnonational Divide
Discussion and Conclusions

What People are Saying About This

Jonathan Preminger

This book offers a very interesting view into workplace relations in Israel. Engaging with key questions relevant to the literature on interethnic conflict, Asaf Darr makes fascinating comparisons and insights into the complexities of Israeli society and the different groups within it.

David De Vries

Between Conflict and Collegiality illuminates how Arab Israeli citizens perceive workplace experiences and employees' identities in a conflict-ridden society. With nuance it explores the ways Palestinian-Arab citizens cultivate a collegial and positive atmosphere with their Jewish employers and co-workers while also negatively treating state and workplace structures.