Factory man : : how one Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local-- and Helped Save an American Town
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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.
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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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: x, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780316231435
0316231436
SUBJECTS
Bassett, John D., -- 1937-
Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company.
Bassett Furniture Industries.
Furniture industry and trade.
Furniture industry and trade -- Foreign ownership.
Offshore outsourcing.
Globalization.