Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town

DCist said Wow!. I read about this book in the "New York Times" a week or so ago and downloaded it this morning. It sounded like it shared some characteristics with other books I have enjoyed that explain some of the economic characteristics of different products and put them . "Addresses Our Key Economic and Emotional Health Issues" according to Loyd Eskildson. Offshoring eliminated 67Addresses Our Key Economic and Emotional Health Issues Offshoring eliminated 673,000 jobs from American furniture makers and related firms, per author Macy. (I certainly believe it, having driven through areas of North Carolina over a period of years, and witnessed the drastic decline in functioning furniture fact. ,000 jobs from American furniture makers and related firms, per author Macy. (I certainly believe it, having driven through areas of North Carolina over a period of years, and witnessed the drastic decline in functioning furniture fact. Factory Man is a treasure trove of well researched facts Dotsy Clifton Factory Man is a treasure trove of well researched facts, complex compelling characters, insight and wit, a business book that had me up at 5 am to find out what happens next! Macy brings the furniture industry, the industrialists, the factory workers, the sup

Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. In FACTORY MAN, Beth Macy brings to life Bassett's deeply personal furniture and family story, along with a host of characters from an industry that was as cutthroat as it was colorful. The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. As she shows how he uses legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and sheer grit and cunning to save hundreds of jobs, she also reveals the truth about modern industry in America.. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send its production o

. Her articles have appeared in national magazines and the Roanoke Times, where her reporting has won more than a dozen national awards, including a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. The daughter of a factory worker, she writes about outsiders and underdogs. Beth Macy won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, a joint project of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard for "her extraordinary reporting

You won't be putting this book down."Janet Maslin, New York Times"Nonfiction storytelling at its finest. This is clearly that book."Bret Witter, author of Dewey and Until Tuesday"In a compelling and meticulously researched narrative, Macy follows the story from the Blue Ridge Mountains to China and Indonesia, chronicling John Bassett's tireless work to revive his company, and with it, an American town."Garden & Gun"A bracing saga. It's as much about people as it is about bedroom suites and international commerce, and that human touch imbues it with the flesh and heart that sets it apart from most nonfiction."Jeff DeBell, The Roanoke TimesA "deeply nuanced portrayal of the effects of globalization on a single company. The book tracks John Bassett's fight to keep American jobs on this side of borders and oceans, and keeps one American town from