Factory man how one furniture maker battled offshoring, stayed local-- and helped save an American town
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.
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New York, NY :
Little, Brown and Company,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Macy, Beth, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Factory man : |b how one furniture maker battled offshoring, stayed local-- and helped save an American town / |c Beth Macy. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Little, Brown and Company, |c 2014. | |
| 300 | |a x, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [415]-442) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 610 | 2 | 0 | |a Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company. |
| 610 | 2 | 0 | |a Bassett Furniture Industries. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Bassett, John D., |d 1937- |
| 650 | 0 | |a Furniture industry and trade |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Furniture industry and trade |x Foreign ownership. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Offshore outsourcing. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Globalization. | |
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