Factory man
how one furniture maker battled offshoring stayed local-- and helped save an American town
Factory man
how one furniture maker battled offshoring stayed local-- and helped save an American town
Book - 2014
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.
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| التنسيق: | كتاب |
| اللغة: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2014.
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| الطبعة: | First edition. |
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Factory Man
How one furniture maker battled offshoring stayed local--and helped save an american town
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حسب Macy, Beth
منشور في 2014
منشور في 2014
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| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Little, Brown and Company, |c 2014. | |
| 300 | |a x, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-442) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 546 | |a Text in English. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue: The dusty road to Dalian -- The tipoff -- The original outsourcer -- The town the Daddy Rabbits built -- Hilltop hierarchy -- The cousin company -- Company man -- Lineage and love -- Navigating the new landscape -- Sweet Ole Bob (SOB) -- The Mount Airy ploy -- The family elbow -- Schooling the Chinese -- Bird-doggin' the backwaters -- Selling the masses -- The storm before the tsunami -- Trouble in the 'Ville -- Stretching out the snake -- The Dalian dance card -- Gathering the troops -- Mr. Bassett goes to Washington -- Factory requiem -- Million-dollar backlash -- Copper wires and pink slips -- Shakedown street -- Mud turtle -- The replacements -- "Sheila, get me the Governor!" -- The Smith River twitch -- Appendix. A Virginia furniture dynasty. | |
| 586 | |a Lukas-Lynton Prize winner, 2013. | ||
| 610 | 2 | 0 | |a Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company. |
| 610 | 2 | 0 | |a Bassett Furniture Industries. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Bassett, John D., |c III, |d 1937- |
| 650 | 0 | |a Furniture industry and trade |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Furniture industry and trade |x Foreign ownership. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Offshore outsourcing. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Globalization. | |
| 610 | 2 | 4 | |a Bassett Furniture Company. |
| 700 | 1 | |a Bassett, John D., |d 1937- | |
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