ABSTRACT
Milton Esman in his article, "The Management of Communal Conflict", regards communal conflicts as discrepancies over the distribution of scarce resources such as economic opportunities, power and cultural symbols. When Jewish women who commute to Arab markets are compared with other female sub-populations, patterns emerge different from those observed for men. Rather, most Jewish commuters hold jobs in the public sector. A related explanation for the employment of Jews in the Arab labor market, also deriving from the super-subordinate relations of Jews and Arabs and the relative segregation of the two economies, contends that members of the superordinate group may choose to work in the subordinate market for purely economic reasons. The perspective that more closely corresponds to the situation in Israel, and which contains a possible explanation of the employment of Jews in Arab labor markets, is that of control through institutionalized dominance.
