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

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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 once the world’s biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the similar powerful Virginia circle of relatives for generations, it was once also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning within the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and in the end Bassett was once forced to send its production in a foreign country.

One man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and decided 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 circle of relatives story, along side a host of characters from an industry that was once as cutthroat as it was once 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 brand new industry in The usa.

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