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Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - And Helped Save an American Town Hardcover - 2014

by Beth Macy


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The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business. The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send its production overseas. One man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and determined third-generation factory man, now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co, which employs more than 700 Virginians and has sales of more than $90 million. In Factory Man, Beth Macy brings to life Bassett's deeply personal furniture and family story, along with a host of characters from an industry that was as cutthroat as it was colorful. As she shows how he uses legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and sheer grit and cunning to save hundreds of jobs, she also reveals the truth about modern industry in America.

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  • Title Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - And Helped Save an American Town
  • Author Beth Macy
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little Brown and Company, New York
  • Date 2014-07-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780316231435 / 0316231436
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.7 in (23.62 x 16.26 x 4.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Dixon
    • Chronological Period: 1980's
    • Chronological Period: 1990's
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Geographic Orientation: Virginia
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014937343
  • Dewey Decimal Code 338.76

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Citations

  • Booklist, 07/01/2014, Page 18
  • Kirkus Best Nonfiction, 12/01/2014, Page 35
  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2014, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 06/15/2014, Page 102
  • New York Times Book Review, 08/24/2014, Page 30
  • NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/07/2014, Page 28
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/17/2014, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly Best Books, 11/03/2014, Page 37

About the author

Beth Macy is the author of the widely acclaimed and bestselling books Dopesick, Truevine, and Raising Lazarus. Based in Roanoke, Virginia, for three decades, she has won more than a dozen national awards for her reporting, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard. She is a winner of the 2021 George Mason Award. Beth is the creator of the Audible Original documentary Dopesick: Finding Tess.Dopesick is being adapted into an original drama by Hulu and will star Michael Keaton.
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