Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory chronicles the closing of White Furniture Company in Mebane, North Carolina. It's a story about the century-old company and the generation of people who worked there.

Photojournalist Bill Bamberger and writer Cathy N. Davidson collaborated on the book. Bamberger teaches in Carolina's American Studies program and in the School of Journalism. Davidson is a professor of English at Duke University.

Closing is a DoubleTake Book, published by the Center for Documentary Studies in association with W.W. Norton & Company.

This fall, these photos are on exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.

Right away they met doi moi entrepreneurs, many providing basic services once the domain of government. Private "people-founded" schools in urban areas offered an alternative for those who could afford to pay. Doctors and health care workers opened their own clinics after the health care system was deregulated in 1991. Now, patients and their families can buy almost any medicine at a private pharmacy, especially those not available in a public hospital.