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

Macy, Beth, author.
2014
338.7684104 B319m 2014
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Title
Factory man : how one furniture maker battled offshoring, stayed local-- and helped save an American town / Beth Macy.
Author
Macy, Beth, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
0316231436 (hardback)
9780316231435 (hardback)
Published
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Language Note
Text in English.
Description
x, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
338.7684104 B319m 2014
System Control No.
(OCoLC)862790783
(OCoLC)862790783
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-442) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
The dusty road to Dalian
The tipoff
The original outsourcer
The town the Daddy Rabbits built
Hilltop hierarchy
The cousin company
Company man
Lineage and love
Navigating the new landscape
Sweet Ole Bob (SOB)
The Mount Airy ploy
The family elbow
Schooling the Chinese
Bird-doggin' the backwaters
Selling the masses
The storm before the tsunami
Trouble in the 'Ville
Stretching out the snake
The Dalian dance card
Gathering the troops
Mr. Bassett goes to Washington
Factory requiem
Million-dollar backlash
Copper wires and pink slips
Shakedown street
Mud turtle
The replacements
"Sheila, get me the Governor!"
The Smith River twitch
Appendix. A Virginia furniture dynasty.
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