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Factory man : how one furniture maker battled offshoring, stayed local-- and helped save an American town
Title:
Factory man : how one furniture maker battled offshoring, stayed local-- and helped save an American town
Author:
Macy, Beth, author.
ISBN:
9780316231435
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
x, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Abstract:
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.
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