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Factory Man
How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local – Helped Save an American Town
Beth Macy
Read by Kristin Kalbli

Hatchette Audio
July 15, 2014/ ASIN: B00L88DHY4
Nonfiction / Small Business / Politics / Consumer Industries / Audiobook - Unabridged: 13 hrs 51 minutes

Reviewed by Nicole Merritt

 

The economic decline of the United States furniture manufacturing companies in the south has impacted the growth of that region tremendously over the last ten or so years. What was once the largest wood furniture manufacturing region has slowed to a halt.

John Bassett III, grandson of the Bassett Furniture Company founder, ultimately sued and won a lawsuit that would save over 700 jobs and his company.

Macy’s description of the industry’s devastating decline and the effects it had on the small town’s unemployment and moral is enthralling.

With the overtaking of outsourced furniture from places like China, furniture making in the U.S. is virtually non-existent today. Macy humanizes the industry, Bassett, and the community. Her presentation is well organized, well researched, and well written.

Great American story!


Reviewed 2014
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