Last time, I looked at what I consider the basic demographics of the framebuilding businesses included in my sample - things like the age of the businesses, employees, sales channels, etc. Now I'd like to turn to what those builders are producing and what this tells us about the U.S. handbuilt segment and its output … Continue reading Framebuilder Survey Analysis: Segment Output →

I'll turn next to what I think of as the business demographics of framebuilders - recognizing that these category headings don't have super distinct boundaries. Here I'll focus on different aspects of framebuilders' businesses, leaving more detailed analysis of production and output types/categories, along with consideration of selling prices and such, to later posts. Tables below … Continue reading Framebuilder Survey Analysis: Business Demographics →

I've intended to keep with the analysis here, especially after a big bump in readers following my last post. Two things have come along: - Quickly shifting to online teaching as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has been quite time consuming. - Figuring out how to move a bunch of tables I constructed in … Continue reading Quick Update →

Beginning the actual analysis of the survey data, I'll start with what I think of as the individual and household demographics of the builders themselves. Who is included in these analyses? Of the total 123 respondents, I want to filter out those who are: completely retired and totally inactive those who are not yet in … Continue reading Framebuilder Survey Analysis: Individual Demographics →

To get things rolling with my bite-size chunks of survey data analysis, I'll begin with a description of the survey itself and the distribution and sampling. The survey (which was approved by my university's IRB and run through Qualtrics software) was open from 3.25.2019 through 1.20.2020 - about 10 months total. I sent four waves … Continue reading Framebuilder Survey Analysis: Distribution Overview →

Close to a year here with no posting. The challenge for me in using a blog on this type of project, I've come to realize, is translating bits of work-in-progress into stand-alone blog posts. Frankly, it can be hard enough to keep plugging along on academic writing on its own....let alone also trying to convert/translate … Continue reading Getting Back To It! →

Long time silence here on the blog, even if I thought shifting from Squarespace to WordPress hosting might push me to spruce things up and get on some kind of posting schedule. But, the truth is, I find it hard to post “bite size” bits from the project, even if the goal was to have … Continue reading The Survey of U.S. Framebuilders →

Climbing back on here after a too-long period of silence. What happened? Got working in the winter on more revisions to my first article from the project (more on that in a second). Then, as mentioned in my last post, in the spring I returned to a long-stalled project on the commercialization of football/soccer. Fortunately, … Continue reading Getting Rolling Again & Article Announcement →

I finished and submitted my paper on the commercial transformation of world soccer/football. So with that off my desk, I'm getting back to thinking through the Braudelian distinction between market life and capitalism. I'd intended - based on my every-other-week posting goal for the year - to have something up last Sunday. For the sake … Continue reading Scale and Logic of Framebuilders: A Typology →

I still owe all you readers a quick 2x2 analytical table using the different dimensions of capitalism and markets (and thinking about the scale of the business enterprise) to categorize different kinds of builders and brands. My spring break is drawing to a close tonight and, fortunately, I made good progress on my commercialization of football … Continue reading Spitballing and Speculating →