Meet the men and women building the new India. For every thousand bricks, they earn a bit less than $5.50 USD. A family, with five adult laborers, pockets on average a little more than $2 a day. This is the life behind the great Indian construction boom. The lure of steady work is drawing more and more migrants who come to brickyards around the country because they can no longer sustain themselves by farming.

For the New York Times International section June 2006

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