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

from Writermala

found this book at the same time Fascinating and Gut-wrenching. Beth Macy has explored the History of the factory town of Bassett Virginia, its progress to becoming the foremost manufacturer of qua...

from GypsyJon

Very interesting book. The history of the Bassett family and the furniture industry in North Carolina. The author reviews a complicated family tree, which includes out of wedlock children of maids ...

from mybucketlistofbooks

One of the most challenging issues facing the United States in the 21st century is how to cope with the consequences of economic globalization. Free trade agreements along with the adoption of free...

from azrowan

If I had grown up in the furniture manufacturing south, or had spent a career in furniture, I may have liked this book. Unfortunately I never grew fond of the Bassett family, and at times it sure s...

from lycomayflower

If I did my ratings based on some sort of objective evaluation of the quality of a book, this would probably be a four-plus-star read, but I rate based on my reading experience and this just utterl...