John D. Bassett III was snaking his way through the sooty streets of rural, northern China on a three-day fact-finding mission. It was 2002, and the third-generation Virginia furniture-maker was ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

Author Beth Macy worked for years as a reporter for the Roanoke Times. "When I became a journalist, I gravitated to those kinds of stories of what I call 'outsiders and underdogs,' " she says. In the ...

If he could meet the man who made that damn Louis Philippe, he just might save his business. Back at Vaughan-Bassett, his factory in Galax, line workers had already deconstructed the dresser piece by ...

Until recently, the town of Galax, Virginia was best known as home to the largest fiddlers' convention in the United States. But that's changing thanks to a best-selling book, a tweet from a mega-star ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

"Factory Man" is about wars, civil and uncivil. Between family members. Between American manufacturers and Chinese entrepreneurs; whites and African-Americans; women and men; labor and capital.

Most people in business have a story about how China has changed their industry, how over the past 30 years it has upended supply chains and grabbed daunting market share. But very few have the sort ...

John D. Bassett III knows about the decline of American manufacturing all too well, but he refuses to give up. “Yes, there’s less … manufacturing today in this state [and in the United States] than ...