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

Beth Macy

The instant The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bas...

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The Megyn Kelly Show

It was mentioned as Beth Macy's first book which focused on the aftermath of globalization. It was discussed in the context of the opioid crisis's roots in economically challenged communities.

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As I was wrapping up that reporting, I was starting to hear things like we've got a heroin crisis in Martinsville, Virginia.

— Episode: "Dopesick" - The Sackler Family: A Megyn...

Episode: "Dopesick" - The Sackler Family: A Megyn Kelly Sho...

It was mentioned as Beth Macy's first book which focused on the aftermath of globalization. It was discussed in the context of the opioid crisis's roots in economically challenged communities.

"

As I was wrapping up that reporting, I was starting to hear things like we've got a heroin crisis in Martinsville, Virginia.

Episode: JonBenét Ramsey's Father, "Dopesick," and "Family...

Megan noted that Macy's earlier book examined the effects of globalization on American manufacturing and set the stage for her later work on the opioid crisis.

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Her first book, Factory Man, which came out in 2014, is about the aftermath of globalization.

Fresh Air

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Fresh Air

Macy referenced the title while explaining that many of the people she interviewed for that book had similar experiences to her mother's work in a factory.

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All the things that the folks that I later interviewed for books like Factory Man were doing.

— Episode: 'Dopesick' Writer Returns To Her 'Fractu...

Episode: 'Dopesick' Writer Returns To Her 'Fractured' Homet...

Macy referenced the title while explaining that many of the people she interviewed for that book had similar experiences to her mother's work in a factory.

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All the things that the folks that I later interviewed for books like Factory Man were doing.

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