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

1 " The real value in manufacturing is creating a community where cash flows. If the American people only realized what’s taken place, they wouldn’t ever buy anything from Walmart again. "

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

2 " When we get on top, the man said, don’t expect us to be dumb enough to do for you what you’ve been dumb enough to do for us. It would take many more trips to Asia before it became clear to JBIII what the Taiwanese furniture maker meant. During that time, two events helped ensure China would indeed get on top: China’s admission into the WTO, and the great exodus of 160 million rural Chinese to the cities—the largest migration in human history. "

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

3 " most reporters don’t really understand it, but it’s hugely important,” said Richard McCormack, the coauthor and editor of ReMaking America and the editor of Manufacturing and Technology News, a trade publication. “Or they write about outsourcing one time and think they’ve covered it. "

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

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

5 " He’d be ostracized for trying to stop the flood of furniture jobs from America, for striking back against the one-percenters who were about to move damn near all their plants to Asia and tear the heart out of the Blue Ridge region he loved. "

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