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Quality Focus Helps Reverse Offshoring of U.S. Manufacturing
2014-09-19 22:56:00| Food Processing
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HBO & Playtone Take On Battle Against Offshoring With 'Factory Man' Miniseries
2014-09-16 03:50:27| Furniture - Topix.net
EXCLUSIVE: One of U.S.' biggest economic stories of the 21st century, how to save American jobs in the face of outsourcing, is getting a personal treatments in Factory Man , a miniseries in development at HBO . The project, produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone , is based on Beth Macy's nonfiction book Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local And Helped Save An American Town .
The human toll of offshoring
2014-09-04 10:28:39| Furniture - Topix.net
The subtitle of Beth Macy's new book, "Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town" gives every impression that it is going to be an upbeat read, a capitalistic feel-good story.
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Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed...
2014-06-01 07:19:10| Furniture - Topix.net
The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer.
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Offshoring will kill 1.5 million IT jobs by 2017
2013-08-30 16:58:05| InfoWorld: Top News
Approximately 1.5 million IT jobs -- about half of the number that existed in North America and Europe in 2002 -- will have been eliminated by 2017, according to new research from The Hacket Group. The mass job loss will be attributable to the combined impact of offshoring, technology-driven productivity improvements and a low-growth business environment.
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