Summary of The Boiler Room
From Brad Paul’s article: Factories In The Field Rural Transformation and Organization of Work in Mozambique’s Cashew Triangle
The Boiler Room
Roasting the cashew is an important step before cut the shell. Worker work in the boiler room
such as Rodrigues Abakar, usually start their work at early morning. They set up the fire, put the
cashew into the industrial pot. And they have to keep working until late afternoon.
The wage of a worker working in the boiler room eight hours a day is 1,200 metacais per month on average. They suffer from the high temperature, heavy smoke and so on. Factories provide some basic protect equipments such as gloves and masks.
During roasting, Cashew Nut Shell Liquid causes many physical hurts to the workers. The industry tried to alleviate the damage of CNSL by using castor oil and apply a layer every 30 minutes. These protected the workers skin as a liquid glove.
