Factory Man
By Beth Macy
How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local—and Helped Save an American Town. Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
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A brief summary of Factory Man
The compelling narrative of how one man in the furniture manufacturing industry endeavored to take on low-cost, overseas competition, revealing some of the worst aspects of globalization and why we need to revise our philosophies about local economy.
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Who should read Factory Man
Economists • Business executives • Manufacturers • Anyone impacted by outsourcing and offshoring • Anyone interested in globalization and geopolitics
About the author of Factory Man
Beth Macy is a bestselling author and journalist known for her hard-hitting and extensively researched nonfiction texts, which include Truevine and Dopesick. Her work has been published in The New York Times and she has earned Harvard’s Nieman Fellowship for Journalism as well as a nod for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
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