Factory Man : How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local--and H...

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Format: Hardcover Number of Pages: 464 Pages Item Height: 1.2 in Publisher: Little Brown & Company Genre: Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics Book Title: Factory Man : How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town Item Length: 9.2 in Author: Beth Macy Publication Year: 2014 ISBN: 9780316231435 Language: English Topic: Globalization, General, Outsourcing, Business, Industries / Manufacturing Item Weight: 25 oz gtin13: 9780316231435 Item Width: 6 in Illustrator: Yes

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Factory Man : How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local--and Helped Save an American Town, Hardcover by Macy, Beth, ISBN 0316231436, ISBN-13 9780316231435, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Describes 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.