Progress
Things have been going on around here, but I’m not going to blame them for my slipping behind my dissertation time line. I blame the overly ambitious time line and more interesting content I’ve been dealing with.
I got together a good chapter outline with a fairly detailed sketch of how to write it out, but writing it out is going more slowly than anticipated, though the exercise is interesting. Much of the pace emerges from trying my weave the concept of congestion into the narrative. I’m trying to treat congestion as too much trying to get through the same pipe and thereby slowing everything down. It’s fairly obvious in the concept of traffic congestion, but it’s not so obvious how it works in the labor place, and I’m trying to argue that longshore unionization was a successful effort to remove congestion from the pipline of wages. But it’s a little tricky since I’m presenting the oversupply of workers as congesting the flow of wages (in the opposite direction?). (Now that I think about it, I guess I’m working out the labor side to my flow of goods ideas.)
Worse, though, is that I have to put it down for a while to work on the statistics for my next chapter, since it has a solid deadline set by someone else. I suppose it will give me time to reflect before I work out the containerization part of the piece, but I’m bummed that I”m going to lose the momentum I built up in reading the related materials, which have gotten more and more interesting. I’ve got an interesting topic. I like it. Odd to say after all my moaning about leaving it behind for more interesting things (utopia). But true.
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