Factory man new book by Beth Macy

MARG LEVINSON, WALL STREET JOURNAL THE BASSETT FURNITURE COMPANY was once the "A truly remarka world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the narrative non same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was does justice to also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning of the story. It's in the 1980s, the company suffered as the first waves of feeling better Asian competition hit, and was eventually forced to move its furniture production overseas. SAN FI One man fought back: John Bassett I, a shrewd and "Like some of "Like some of determined third-generation factory man, now chairman writers today of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company. Beth Macy brings Katherine Boo to life Bassett's deeply personal furniture and family Beth Macy tak story, along with a host of characters from an industry too dry, too as cutthroat as it is colorful. As she shows how Bassett depressing fi used legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, sheer grit, tackle and st and cunning to grow the company and save hundreds of integrity, sou jobs, she also reveals hidden truths about modern industry in America. CHRIST BETH MACY received the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, a joint project of INTREPIDPAPER