They found that roadlessness, a status that would not bar mechanised vehicles and some sorts of mining, constituted a lesser protection.
Nearly all the dangerous work is now mechanised, and the supervision is done not at the drill but in a comfortable control room that is well out of harm's way.Things still do not go completely like clockwork, however.
(For a successful graduate, try www.ai-ai.com.cn).It is a side of China's economic transformation that is often forgotten: tens of millions of jobs have been created; but tens of millions have been destroyed as the countryside has mechanised and bankrupt state-owned industries have closed.
But some jobs (such as cleaning or nursing) cannot be sent abroad or mechanised.
But the day in January that it began hearings, an outspoken newspaper, the Indian Express, claimed that he sent two elite army units paratrooper special forces and mechanised infantry on pre-dawn exercises on the approaches to Delhi.
Already intensively cultivated and mechanised, there are few opportunities for farmers to increase output by improving yields on existing acreage.
If that sounds a bit arty, it is: Mr Schmitt is a former art student from Germany who used to cadge time on factory lathes and milling machines to make mechanised sculptures.
The state's tribal casinos seem close to installing slot machines despite two state votes against mechanised gambling.
Cereal agriculture is heavily mechanised, with one combine harvester taking over from hundreds of labourers, but other tasks have proven difficult to automate.
But they do directly affect the need for people like assembly-line workers or those doing certain clerical tasks, whose jobs can be reduced to a set of instructions which a machine can easily follow (and which can consequently be mechanised).
