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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.

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'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.

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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.

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'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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