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

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    "Victims of creative destruction" - Abandoned furniture factories, ruins of demolished smokestacks, thousands of displaced factory workers - necessary outcomes of globalization?     

    Beth Macy tells the story of John Bassett III who refused to go with the trend of offshoring. He chose to keep his factory open, manufacture his own furniture and keep his workers employed.  He did so at the expense of ridicule and anger of the industry he worked with. He refused to be just one of the victims. He faced the battle head-on.

    Learn, too, the century-old stories behind the man who helped save an American town - the movers and shakers of Virginia's manufacturing powerhouses, the people and events that helped shape the man, the industry and the community.  

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBern Bolo
    Release dateJun 13, 2019
    ISBN9781393557913
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      Summary of Factory Man - BERN BOLO

      Copyright © 2019 by Bern Bolo

      Please Note: This is a summary of Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local – and Helped Save an American Town by Beth Macy.

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      Summary of

      Factory Man:

      How One Furniture Maker

      Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local –

      and Helped Save an American Town

      by Beth Macy

      By: Bern Bolo

      © Bern Bolo 2016

      ISBN: 978-1-68030-310-0

      Table of Contents

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      Bathroom Epiphanies | Preface

      Prologue | The Dusty Road to Dalian

      Chapter One:  The Tip-off

      Chapter Two: The Original Outsourcer

      Chapter Three: The Town the Daddy Rabbits Built

      Chapter Four: Hilltop Hierarchy

      Chapter Five: The Cousin Company

      Chapter Six: Company Man

      Chapter Seven: Lineage and Love

      Chapter Eight: Navigating the New Landscape

      Chapter Nine: Sweet Ole Bob (SOB)

      Chapter Ten: The Mount Airy Ploy

      Chapter Eleven: The Family Elbow

      Chapter Twelve: Schooling the Chinese

      Chapter Thirteen: Bird-Doggin’ the Backwaters

      Chapter Fourteen: Selling the Masses

      Chapter Fifteen: The Storm Before the Tsunami

      Chapter Sixteen: Trouble in the Ville

      Chapter Seventeen: Stretching Out the Snake

      Chapter Eighteen: The Dalian Dance Card

      Chapter Nineteen: Gathering the Troops

      Chapter Twenty: Mr. Bassett Goes to Washington

      Chapter Twenty-one: Factory Requiem

      Chapter Twenty-two: Million-Dollar Backlash

      Chapter Twenty-three: Copper Wires and Pink Slips

      Chapter Twenty-four: Shakedown Street

      Chapter Twenty-five: Mud Turtle

      Chapter Twenty-six: The Replacements

      Chapter Twenty-seven:  Shiela, Get Me the Governor!

      Bathroom Epiphanies | The Smith River Twitch

      About the Author

      Preface

      Close all three of your factories.

      A simple statement? A command? A threat? A joke? These are the words of an Asian furniture mogul to an American third generation furniture maker.

      Beth Macy follows the drama and action of furniture manufacturing in Virginia, which started at the turn of the twentieth century and almost ended at the beginning of the next century. John Bassett III fought for the survival of his factory and workers. And to do so, he faced the battle overseas, within the industry, and in his own homefront.  

      Henry County is now the capital of long-term unemployment. Gone are the millionaires who resided in Virginia’s manufacturing powerhouses just half a century ago.

      Beth Macy looks into another side of globalization, the creation

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