Title: Factory man
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.
Subjects: Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company, Bassett Furniture Industries, Globalization, Offshore outsourcing, Foreign ownership, Furniture industry and trade, Business enterprises, united states, Businesspeople, biography, Offshore assembly industry
Places: United States
People: John D. Bassett III (1937-)