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Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - And Helped Save an American Town Paperback - 2015

by Beth Macy


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The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business. The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send its production overseas. One man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and determined third-generation factory man, now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co, which employs more than 700 Virginians and has sales of more than $90 million. In Factory Man, Beth Macy brings to life Bassett's deeply personal furniture and family story, along with a host of characters from an industry that was as cutthroat as it was colorful. As she shows how he uses legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and sheer grit and cunning to save hundreds of jobs, she also reveals the truth about modern industry in America.

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  • Title Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - And Helped Save an American Town
  • Author Beth Macy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Back Bay Books
  • Date 2015-06-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780316231411 / 031623141X
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.3 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Dixon
    • Chronological Period: 1980's
    • Chronological Period: 1990's
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Geographic Orientation: Virginia
  • Library of Congress subjects Globalization, Offshore outsourcing - United States
  • Dewey Decimal Code 338.76

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Citations

  • New York Times Book Review, 08/02/2015, Page 24

About the author

Beth Macy is the author of the widely acclaimed and bestselling books Truevine and Factory Man. Based in Roanoke, Virginia for three decades, her reporting has won more than a dozen national awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard.
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