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'Factory Man': how a Virginia furniture maker took on China
2014-09-01 04:20:12| Furniture - Topix.net
'Factory Man' tells the story of one man's fight to save an industry and the small towns that depend on it Most people in business have a story about how China has changed their industry, how over the past 30 years it has upended supply chains and grabbed daunting market share.
'Factory Man' John Bassett III Fought Chinese Manufacturers To Keep His Furniture Business At Home
2014-08-27 23:51:28| Furniture - Topix.net
While factory work was once a large part of the American economy, the trend toward globalization and outsourcing has gutted many, and the rural towns that relied on them.
Factory Man: Anti-Outsourcing Businessman Is Featured in New Book
2014-08-25 06:46:54| Furniture - Topix.net
Economic globalization has done terrible damage to this country in its twin manifestations: Outsourcing has removed entire industries to overseas havens of cheap labor, and immigration has lowered wages for businesses that couldn't be shipped abroad.
'Factory Man' by Beth Macy
2014-08-10 20:41:29| Furniture - Topix.net
But very few have the sort of China story that John Bassett III has. One day in November 2002, Mr Bassett, a third-generation furniture maker from Virginia, found himself in China meeting the Communist party official and businessman intent on putting him out of business.
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'Factory Man,' by Beth Macy
2014-07-31 21:48:16| Furniture - Topix.net
It cannot be easy to write a page-turner about furniture production, yet that appears to be the goal that Beth Macy sets for herself in the beginning of "Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town."
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