Factory man : how one furniture maker battled offshoring, stayed local-- and helped save an American town
by Macy, Beth (Author)
Summary
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. Full description
- The dusty road to Dalian
- The tipoff
- The original outsourcer
- The town the Daddy Rabbits built
- Hilltop hierarchy
- The cousin company
- Company man
- Lineage and love
- Navigating the new landscape
- Sweet Ole Bob (SOB)
- The Mount airy ploy
- The family elbow
- Schooling the Chinese
- Bird-doggin' the backwaters
- Selling the masses
- The storm before the tsunami
- Trouble in the 'Ville
- Stretching out the snake
- The Dalian dance card
- Gathering the troops
- Mr. Bassett goes to Washington
- Factory requiem
- Million-dollar backlash
- Copper wires and pink slips
- Shakedown street
- Mud turtle
- The replacements
- "Sheila, get me the Governor!"
- The Smith River twitch
- Appendix. A Virginia furniture dynasty.