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Factory man : how one furniture maker battled offshoring, stayed local-- and helped save an American town
Record details
- ISBN: 031623141X (Back Bay : pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780316231411 (Back Bay : pbk.)
- ISBN: 0316231436 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 9780316231435 (hbk.)
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Physical Description:
x, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [415]-442) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: 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. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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. |
| Language Note: | Text in English. |
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| Ansonia Public Library | 338.7 MAC (Text) | 34045129017492 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | 338.7 MACY, B. (Text) | 32544072371072 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Bethel Public Library | 338.768 MACY (Text) | 34030129711245 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | BIZ 338.7 MAC (Text) | 34014131249824 | Business & Career Collection | Available | - |
| Canterbury Public Library | 338.7 MACY (Text) | 33190000388223 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | 684.1 Mac (Text) | 33180123715253 | Adult Fiction - First Floor | Available | - |
| Derby Neck Library | 338.76 MAC (Text) | 34046131340781 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Derby Public Library | 338.76 MAC (Text) | 34047129114964 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | 338.7684 MACY (Text) | 34026129777368 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | 338.7 MAC (Text) | 34055132004619 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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| 250 | . | ‡aFirst edition. | |
| 264 | 1. | ‡aNew York : ‡bLittle, Brown and Company, ‡c2014. | |
| 300 | . | ‡ax, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ‡billustrations ; ‡c25 cm | |
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| 504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [415]-442) and index. | |
| 520 | . | ‡aDescribes 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. | |
| 546 | . | ‡aText in English. | |
| 505 | 0 | . | ‡aPrologue: 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. |
| 610 | 2 | 0. | ‡aVaughan-Bassett Furniture Company. |
| 610 | 2 | 0. | ‡aBassett Furniture Industries. |
| 600 | 1 | 0. | ‡aBassett, John D., ‡cIII, ‡d1937- |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aFurniture industry and trade ‡zUnited States. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aFurniture industry and trade ‡xForeign ownership. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aOffshore outsourcing. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aGlobalization. | |
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