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050 00 $aHD9773.U74$bV38 2014
082 00 $a338.7/6841040973$223
100 1 $aMacy, Beth,$eauthor.
245 10 $aFactory man :$bhow one furniture maker battled offshoring, stayed local-- and helped save an American town /$cBeth Macy.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bLittle, Brown and Company,$c2014.
300 $ax, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [415]-442) and index.
520 $aDescribes 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 $aText in English.
505 0 $aThe 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.
610 20 $aVaughan-Bassett Furniture Company.
610 20 $aBassett Furniture Industries.
600 10 $aBassett, John D.,$cIII,$d1937-
650 0 $aFurniture industry and trade$zUnited States.
650 0 $aFurniture industry and trade$xForeign ownership.
650 0 $aOffshore outsourcing.
650 0 $aGlobalization.
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