On the job

Literacy levels

Shelf life

The Lives of Ants by Laurent Keller and Elisabeth Gordon,Oxford University Press, USA, $28

Apple makes them cry

Pledge>> Computers • China

Gearing up AIDS awareness

Bad blood

A hypothesis that radiation from a nuclear plant caused leukaemia in the children of its employees has been trashed

Blue-collar job declining worldwide

Liberalisation viewed through worker's eyes

FOOD, HEALTH AND SURVIVAL IN INDIA AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Stuart Gillespie and Geraldine McNeill Publisher: Oxford University Press, Delhi Price:

The bitter half

Migrant spectre

Shearers poisoned

Steelborn

Thousands suffer in India's ship-breaking yards while an unconcerned government invites more ships for scrapping

Boost for weavers

Change in immigration rules flayed

A US government plan to simplify immigration procedures for professionals in 10 short-listed vocations has come under fire

Modernising energy

Dead beat

Workers offer wages

Against the wind

Government policies and land prices are preventing companies from setting up wind mills in Nagercoil

Rice and easy

Missing link

Handloom is haute

Non-smoking beedi-rollers face cancer risk

About six million people employed in India's beedi industry risk developing cancer from handling tobacco leaves

Unashamed exploitation

X-ray overdose

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