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Factory Man : How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local-- And Helped Save an American Town
- Title
- Factory Man : How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local-- And Helped Save an American Town / Beth Macy.
- Author
- Macy, Beth
- Publication
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 15-3866 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JBE 15-225 | Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [415]-442) and index.
- Language (note)
- Text in English.
- Contents
- Prologue: 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-3866
- ISBN
- 9780316231435 (hbk.)
- 0316231436 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2014937343
- OCLC
- 862790783
- Author
- Macy, Beth, author.
- Title
- Factory Man : How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local-- And Helped Save an American Town / Beth Macy.
- Publisher
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [415]-442) and index.
- Language
- Text in English.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-3866JBE 15-225