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

by Beth Macy

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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.
  • ISBN10 0316231436
  • ISBN13 9780316231435
  • Publish Date 15 July 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Little Brown and Company
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 464
  • Language English