With These Hands The Story of an American Furnitue Factory

In 2007 unable to compete with cheaper offshore production Hooker Furniture Co closed its plant in Martinsville Virginia after 83 years in operation With These Hands follows the last load of wood down the assembly line as it is cut honed and assembled into fine furniture Along the way employees at the factory share their perspectives on work community and survival in a country devastated by deindustrialization and outsourcing