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

Name: Factory Man How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
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ISBN: 9780316231435

ISBN-10: 0316231436

ISBN-13: 9780316231435

Edition: 2014

Authors: Beth Macy

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One man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by taking on China and demonstrating the greatness of American business.With over $500 million a year in sales, the Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for three generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, VA-an unincorporated town that existed solely for the people who built the company's products. But beginning in the 1980s, the Bassett company suffered from an influx of cheap Chinese furniture as the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately was forced to send its production offshore to Asia.Only one man fought back. That man is John…

Book details

List price: $54.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication date: 7/15/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584