Hallowed Heritage: The Life of VirginiaTorpey, Dorothy Margaret
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Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia
Torpey, Dorothy Margaret
Virginia -- Civilization
Furniture-making ranks seventh in number of employees engaged in
manufacturing. Most of Virginia's furniture workers are engaged
in the manufacture of unupholstered wooden house furniture. Such
furniture includes bedroom, living room and dining room suites
(Bassett, Martinsville, Staunton, Marion, Stanleytown, Roanoke
and Pulaski), cedar chests (Alta Vista) and radio and television
cabinets (Bristol). Living room upholstered furniture including
chairs, sofa beds, studio couches and furniture frames are
manufactured at Salem, Christiansburg, Norfolk, Roanoke and Galax.
Chrome dinettes and plastic furniture are manufactured in plants
located at Marion. Office equipment including floor cabinets and
metal filing cabinets is made at Crozet. There is also an extensive
fixture industry--bank, office and store fixtures--plus such
items as literary bookstacks, metal partitions, doors and movable
partitions primarily at Orange, Norfolk and Richmond.
The eighth largest employer of workers engaged in manufacturing is
the tobacco industry. Although the national consumption of tobacco
has increased considerably, the rapid mechanization added to the
manufacturing process has resulted in a decline in the total number
of employees. Although only approximately six workers per 1,000
engaged in manufacturing in the United States are in the tobacco
industry, in Virginia approximately 56 workers per 1,000 are so
engaged. The chief locations for the tobacco industry are Richmond,
Petersburg, Danville and South Boston. These workers are engaged
primarily in the manufacture of cigarettes and in tobacco stemming
and redrying. Richmond is the largest cigarette manufacturing center
in the world. Petersburg has an exceptionally large cigarette
manufacturing plant. Cigars, chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff
are also manufactured in Richmond. Danville has the largest number
of tobacco stemming and redrying workers. Approximately half of the
tobacco industry workers are women.
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