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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Macy, Beth, author.     Subjects     Bassett, John.     Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company.     Furniture industry and trade -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Macy, Beth, author.       by title:      Factory man [electro...         MARC Display

Factory man [electronic resource] : how one furniture maker battled offshoring, stayed local-- and helped save an American town / Beth Macy, winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-progress award. by Macy, Beth, author. [New York] : Hachette Audio, [2014] Subjects Bassett, John.   Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company.   Furniture industry and trade -- United States. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=E75D8A6C-4C6E-4579-A67C-B694489296AD This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://excerpts.contentreserve.com/FormatType-25/4575-1/1860030-FactoryMan.wma Electronic Resource http://excerpts.contentreserve.com/FormatType-425/4575-1/1860030-FactoryMan.mp3 Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/4575-1/{E75D8A6C-4C6E-4579-A67C-B694489296AD}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781478931096 (electronic audio bk.) 1478931094 (electronic audio bk.) Description:  1 online resource (1 sound file) : digital Requests:  0 Summary:  One man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by taking on China and demonstrating the greatness of American business.With over $500 million a year in sales, the Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for three generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, VA-an unincorporated town that existed solely for the people who built the company's products. But beginning in the 1980s, the Bassett company suffered from an influx of cheap Chinese furniture as the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately was forced to send its production offshore to Asia.Only one man fought back. That man is John Bassett III, a descendant of the Bassetts who is now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co, which employs more than 700 Virginians and has sales of over $90 million. In FACTORY MAN, Beth Macy brings to life Bassett's deeply personal furniture and family story. As she shows how he uses legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and sheer grit, cunning, and will to save hundreds of jobs, she also discovers the hidden and shocking truth about industry and America.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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