Mohawk Indian ironworkers and the construction of the tallest building in the world :: NPR
A blast from the past from the "Present at the Creation" series at National Public Radio.

Nothing much has changed. Today, the tallest building in the world employs vast numbers of construction workers from India and other countries in the subcontinent.

I'm stumbled upon this checking a conjecture - which is that massive construction projects have a long history of labor disputes. I'm still checking and will report back whether or not that dog barks.

Meanwhile, I and my fellow Dubaians (and Sharjans) are present at the creation of world marvels of construction.

In related news, a underwater hotel dream goes bellyup as expected:

We are absolutely no longer considering the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East as a possible location for anything. Our business experiences there were truly terrible.

-Poseidon Resorts

Oddly, I don't see that news mentioned at Google (Dubai underwater hotel - Google News). Instead there are lots of stories mentioning underwater hotel plans in Dubai, and even one about the global race to build the first underwater hotel.

Interested in a job that involves heights and pays well for changing lightbulbs? Check out this guy's job.

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Thanks to samuraisam for co-authorship of this report including the pointers to seabee's discovery of the Poseidon Resorts statement and the lightbulbchanger salary report.