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Factory Man

Author : Beth Macy
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316231568
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Factory Man written by Beth Macy and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business. 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 Bassett was forced to send its production overseas. One man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and determined third-generation factory man, now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co, which employs more than 700 Virginians and has sales of more than $90 million. In Factory Man, Beth Macy brings to life Bassett's deeply personal furniture and family story, along with a host of characters from an industry that was as cutthroat as it was colorful. As she shows how he uses legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and sheer grit and cunning to save hundreds of jobs, she also reveals the truth about modern industry in America.

Factory Man

Author : James E. Harbour
Publisher : Society of Manufacturing Engineers
ISBN 13 : 087263860X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book Factory Man written by James E. Harbour and published by Society of Manufacturing Engineers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Factory Man is about James Harbour and the epic struggle of the U.S. auto industry to catch up to Japan in quality and productivity. James Harbour's story, blunt and accessible, includes a detailed description of how Detroit went astray, beginning right after World War II. The story continues to the present day as he explains why Detroit still hasn't quite caught up and how desperate the situation has become.

Dead Man Upright

Author : Derek Raymond
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612190634
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Dead Man Upright written by Derek Raymond and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before available in the U.S., the final episode in the Factory Series is another unrelenting investigation with the nameless detective into the black soul of Thatcher’s England. The fifth and final book in the author’s acclaimed Factory Series was published just after Derek Raymond’s death, and so didn’t get the kind of adulatory attention the previous four titles in the series got. The book has been unavailable for so long that many of Derek Raymond’s rabid fans aren’t even aware there is a fifth book. But Dead Man Upright may be the most psychologically probing book in the series. Unlike the others, it’s not so much an investigation into the identity of a killer, but a chase to catch him before he kills again. Meanwhile, the series’ hero—the nameless Sargent from the “Unexplained Deaths” department—is facing more obstacles in the department, due to severe budget cutbacks, than he’s ever faced before. However, this time, the Sargent knows the identity of the next victim of the serial killer in question. But even the Sargent’s brutally blunt way of speaking can’t convince the besotted victim, and he’s got to convince a colleague to go against orders and join him in the attempt to catch the killer... before it’s too late.

The Idea Factory

Author : Jon Gertner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101561084
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Idea Factory written by Jon Gertner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation and the birthplace of some of the 20th century’s most influential technologies “Filled with colorful characters and inspiring lessons . . . The Idea Factory explores one of the most critical issues of our time: What causes innovation?” —Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review “Compelling . . . Gertner's book offers fascinating evidence for those seeking to understand how a society should best invest its research resources.” —The Wall Street Journal From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and development wing of AT&T-was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory for new ideas in the world. From the transistor to the laser, from digital communications to cellular telephony, it's hard to find an aspect of modern life that hasn't been touched by Bell Labs. In The Idea Factory, Jon Gertner traces the origins of some of the twentieth century's most important inventions and delivers a riveting and heretofore untold chapter of American history. At its heart this is a story about the life and work of a small group of brilliant and eccentric men-Mervin Kelly, Bill Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and Bill Baker-who spent their careers at Bell Labs. Today, when the drive to invent has become a mantra, Bell Labs offers us a way to enrich our understanding of the challenges and solutions to technological innovation. Here, after all, was where the foundational ideas on the management of innovation were born.

The Factory

Author : Hiroko Oyamada
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081122886X
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Factory written by Hiroko Oyamada and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan The English-language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task they've been assigned: one shreds paper, one proofreads documents, and another studies the moss growing all over the expansive grounds. But their lives slowly become governed by their work—days take on a strange logic and momentum, and little by little, the margins of reality seem to be dissolving: Where does the factory end and the rest of the world begin? What's going on with the strange animals here? And after a while—it could be weeks or years—the three workers struggle to answer the most basic question: What am I doing here? With hints of Kafka and unexpected moments of creeping humor, The Factory casts a vivid—and sometimes surreal—portrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of the modern workplace.

The Wasp Factory

Author : Iain Banks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476750246
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Wasp Factory written by Iain Banks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath. Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.

Factory Summers

Author : Guy Delisle
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN 13 : 1770466703
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Factory Summers written by Guy Delisle and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2022-08-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. Factory Summers chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill, and the twelve hour shifts he spent in a hot, noisy building filled with arcane machinery. Delisle takes his noted outsider perspective and applies it domestically, this time as a boy amongst men through the universal rite of passage of the summer job. Even as a teenager, Delisle’s keen eye for hypocrisy highlights the tensions of class and the rampant sexism an all-male workplace permits. Guy works the floor doing physically strenuous tasks. He is one of the few young people on site, and furthermore gets the job through his father’s connections, a fact which rightfully earns him disdain from the lifers. Guy’s dad spends his whole career in the white collar offices, working 9 to 5 instead of the rigorous 12-hour shifts of the unionized labor. Guy and his dad aren’t close, and Factory Summers leaves Delisle reconciling whether the job led to his dad’s aloofness and unhappiness. On his days off, Guy finds refuge in art, a world far beyond the factory floor. Delisle shows himself rediscovering comics at the public library, and preparing for animation school–only to be told on the first day, “There are no jobs in animation.” Eager to pursue a job he enjoys, Guy throws caution to the wind. Translated by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall

The Tulip Factory

Author : Kacie Davis Idol
Publisher : Inkshares
ISBN 13 : 1941758789
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The Tulip Factory written by Kacie Davis Idol and published by Inkshares. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before they exchange even a single word, Corrine knows that James will change everything. And sure enough, their serendipitous meeting in a North Carolina coffee shop sets off a whirlwind of desire and possibilities for the two. Timing, however, isn’t on the couple’s side. After their relationship ends, Corrine finds that years of putting her career and passions on hold for love have led to a stalled life. She once saw her receptionist job as temporary but got too comfortable and, before she knew it, lost sight of her dream of becoming a writer. Now, as Corrine makes her way into her late twenties, she’s on a quest to find herself. As she struggles to figure out what she really wants, she’ll discover that sometimes you have to take happiness into your own hands and that a fulfilling life is built on opportunities—even the missed ones.

American Made

Author : Farah Stockman
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1984801155
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book American Made written by Farah Stockman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when Americans lose their jobs? In American Made, an illuminating story of ruin and reinvention, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Farah Stockman gives an up-close look at the profound role work plays in our sense of identity and belonging, as she follows three workers whose lives unravel when the factory they have dedicated so much to closes down. “With humor, breathtaking honesty, and a historian’s satellite view, American Made illuminates the fault lines ripping America apart.”—Beth Macy, author of Factory Man and Dopesick Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the dangerous furnaces at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was proud of producing one of the world’s top brands of steel bearings. Wally, a black man known for his initiative and kindness, was promoted to chairman of efficiency, one of the most coveted posts on the factory floor, and dreamed of starting his own barbecue business one day. John, a white machine operator, came from a multigenerational union family and clashed with a work environment that was increasingly hostile to organized labor. The Rexnord factory had served as one of the economic engines for the surrounding community. When it closed, hundreds of people lost their jobs. What had life been like for Shannon, Wally, and John, before the plant shut down? And what became of them after the jobs moved to Mexico and Texas? American Made is the story of a community struggling to reinvent itself. It is also a story about race, class, and American values, and how jobs serve as a bedrock of people’s lives and drive powerful social justice movements. This revealing book shines a light on a crucial political moment, when joblessness and anxiety about the future of work have made themselves heard at a national level. Most of all, American Made is a story about people: who we consider to be one of us and how the dignity of work lies at the heart of who we are.

The Most They Ever Had

Author : Rick Bragg
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817356835
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Most They Ever Had written by Rick Bragg and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spring of 2001, across the South, padlocks and logging chains bind the doors of silent mills, and it seems a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill survived. In these real-life stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Bragg brilliantly evokes the hardscrabble lives of those who lived and died by an American cotton mill.

Making Conversation

Author : Fred Dust
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062933914
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Making Conversation written by Fred Dust and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Senior Partner and Global Managing Director at the legendary design firm IDEO shows how to design conversations and meetings that are creative and impactful. Conversations are one of the most fundamental means of communicating we have as humans. At their best, conversations are unconstrained, authentic and open—two or more people sharing thoughts and ideas in a way that bridges our individual experiences, achieves a common goal. At their worst, they foster misunderstanding, frustration and obscure our real intentions. How often do you walk away from a conversation feeling really heard? That it moved the people in it forward in some important way? You’re not alone. In his practice as a designer, Fred Dust began to approach conversations differently. After years of trying to broker communication between colleagues and clients, he came to believe there had to a way to design the art of conversation itself with intention and purpose, but still artful and playful. Making Conversation codifies what he learned and outlines the seven elements essential to successful exchanges: Commitment, Creative Listening, Clarity, Context, Constraints, Change, and Create. Taken together, these seven elements form a set of resources anyone can use to be more deliberate and purposeful in making conversations work.

Little Factory

Author : Sarah Weeks
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780060274290
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Little Factory written by Sarah Weeks and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1998-08-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a little man who ran a little factory. But as the factory grows bigger and bigger, the little workers begin to cough and choke on the smoke from the factory chimneys. It's up to the little man to save the day. This one-of-a-kind picture book with CD-ROM keeps the little factory humming with an animated song kids will love to sing, playable on both Macs and PCs.

Nurnberg's Panzer Factory

Author : Roddy MacDougall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908032065
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Nurnberg's Panzer Factory written by Roddy MacDougall and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mangled Man

Author : James Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789814315074
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Mangled Man written by James Lee and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn off your lights, get ready for frights! When the clock strikes midnight and the moons full and bright, it's time for dread and fear. For Mr Midnight is here with two stories, double the danger and twice the terror! STORY ONE: MANGLED MAN is the ugliest ghost in the Dead World - so ugly that his face had to be permanently covered. But what happens when he comes to Jordan Koh's school? We dare you to read every single word! STORY TWO: Hundreds of ghosts have been turned into slaves by the evil Dr Mortis. Can Tin Siew Yan and her friends save them? If they can't, they too will be trapped in THE GHOST FACTORY.

Factory

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Factory written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 24, no. 3-v. 34, no. 3 include: International industrial digest.

The factory

Author : Laura Pérez Caballero
Publisher : Laura Pérez Caballero
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The factory written by Laura Pérez Caballero and published by Laura Pérez Caballero. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finish discovering each of the secrets of young werewolves.

Every Farm a Factory

Author : Deborah Kay Fitzgerald
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300133413
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Every Farm a Factory written by Deborah Kay Fitzgerald and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early part of the 20th century farming in America was transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial activity. This book explores the modernization of the 1920s, which saw farmers adopt not just new technology, but also the financial cultural & ideological apparatus of industrialism.