Factory Man
How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local--and Helped Save an American Town
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: x, 451 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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:
Bassett, John.
Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company.
Furniture industry and trade -- United States.
Bassett, John.
Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company.
Furniture industry and trade -- United States.
ISBN:
9780316231435
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BUSINESS Mac | Main (Downtown) | Display - First Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-442) and index.