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    Factory man : how one furniture maker battled offshoring, stayed local--and helped save an American town / Beth Macy.

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    • Title:Factory man : how one furniture maker battled offshoring, stayed local--and helped save an American town / Beth Macy.
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    • Author/Creator:Macy, Beth, author.
    • Published/Created:New York : Back Bay Books/Little Brown and Company, [2015]
      ©2015

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Bassett, John D., III, 1937-
      Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company.
      Bassett Furniture Industries.
      Furniture industry and trade--United States.
      Furniture industry and trade--Foreign ownership.
      Offshore outsourcing--United States.
      Globalization.
    • Description:x, 451, 14 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
    • Summary:Describes how the chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture fought for his more than seven hundred employees in a small Virginia town using legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and his wits and determination in the wake of sales losses to cheap Asian furniture imports.
    • Notes:Reprint. Originally published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
      Includes reading group guide.
      Includes bibliographical references (pages [415]-442) and index.
      Text in English.
    • ISBN:9780316231411 (paperback)
      031623141X (paperback)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: PART I
      ch. 1 Tipoff
      ch. 2 Original Outsourcer
      ch. 3 Town the Daddy Rabbits Built
      ch. 4 Hilltop Hierarchy
      PART II
      ch. 5 Cousin Company
      ch. 6 Company Man
      ch. 7 Lineage and Love
      PART III
      ch. 8 Navigating the New Landscape
      ch. 9 Sweet Ole Bob (SOB)
      ch. 10 Mount Airy Ploy
      ch. 11 Family Elbow
      PART IV
      ch. 12 Schooling the Chinese
      ch. 13 Bird-Doggin' the Backwaters
      ch. 14 Selling the Masses
      PART V
      ch. 15 Storm Before the Tsunami
      ch. 16 Trouble in the `Ville
      ch. 17 Stretching Out the Snake
      ch. 18 Dalian Dance Card
      PART VI
      ch. 19 Gathering the Troops
      ch. 20 Mr. Bassett Goes to Washington
      ch. 21 Factory Requiem
      PART VII
      ch. 22 Million-Dollar Backlash
      ch. 23 Copper Wires and Pink Slips
      ch. 24 Shakedown Street
      PART VIII
      ch. 25 Mud Turtle
      ch. 26 Replacements
      ch. 27 "Sheila, Get Me the Governor!".
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