Soli learnt how to mould building blocks at an early age; his mother died when...

Soli learnt how to mould building blocks at an early age; his mother died when he was 19 and a year later his father died, leaving the responsibility for the entire household on the young man’s shoulders. He started work as an apprentice in a small building block factory near his home. They moulded building blocks made from a mixture of clay and water with a simple locally-made wooden moulding tool. Three semi-skilled workers and seven labourers were employed. Soli worked hard and was soon promoted to a semi-skilled labourer and was thus involved in actually making the bricks for a period of two years.

At this stage Soli left the factory in order to set up his own unit in a nearby village some 16 km away from his home. He leased out his family’s property and bought a smaller house in the village together with a metal moulding machine for his own enterprise. He started to produce hollow building blocks in the backyard of the new house and employed two labourers to help him. The business flourished from the beginning since the demand was high, and the factory produced at its full capacity of around 100 blocks per day.?

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Asked by Jjoe_sephh on 9th July, 2020