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.
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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