Factory man
Subtitle: how one furniture maker battled offshoring, stayed local--and helped save an American town
By: Beth Macy
Edition: First Back Bay paperback edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780316231411
Subjects: Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company; Bassett Furniture Industries; Globalization; Offshore outsourcing; Foreign ownership; Furniture industry and trade
Description: 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: Originally published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.

Includes reading group guide.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-442) and index.