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vii. manufacturing industries.
attention lias latterly been called, that the Swedish workman not seldom
lacks the desirable intensity in his labour, and that there is a want of
proper organization of the direction and management of the work.
The facts enumerated above will be enough to account for only few of
the branches of Swedish industry having succeeded in establishing an
export trade on a large scale. To remedy this drawback is the immediate
task set before industrial enterprise in the country at the present time, if
it is to attain those dimensions which alone can render it of the economic
importance desirable for the country as a whole. As has been pointed out
several times in the foregoing pages, the prospects of a realization of these
hopes seem brighter at present than in the past. As is well-known, the
chief basis of these hopes is the immense motor-power possessed by Sweden
in its many waterfalls (cf. below).
For administrative measures concerning industries and other branches
of employment other than agriculture, there is a central official
department called the Board of Trade (Kommerskollegium) one of whose three
bureaus is intended for matters concerning the mining-industry, factories,
etc. The State also endeavours to promote the development of industries
by means of up-to-date educational establisments, partly for general
technical instruction (cf. p. I, 417) and also, in certain cases, by means of
special professional schools — the greater part of these, however, being
of a private character — an account of which will be found in their proper
sections in this book. The State also makes grants for exhibitions, etc.,
Table 70. Factory Industries in the Toivns and in the Country Districts
of Sweden in 1912}
Output in
Towns Factories Hands thousands
of kronor
Stockholm . . 774 29 048 178 864
Gothenburg . . 373 15133 106 541
Malmö .... 340 10 916 86 458
Norrköping . . 179 8 509 50 790
Hälsingborg . 118 3 532 31 970
Borås .... 101 4 933 28 252
Gävle .... 145 4 233 26 370
Landskrona. . 68 1871 25 152
Västerås . . . 54 2 857 23 072
Eskilstuna . . 156 5151 21 632
Kristianstad .. 40 1006 18 486
Kalmar . . . 53 1092 17 848
Jönköping . . 93 4 290 17 562
Örebro .... 102 2 888 17 130
Ystad .... 49 765 15 909
Trälleborg . . 52 877 14 788
Uppsala . . . 94 2 317 14 010
Lund .... 65 1714 13 013
Karlstad . . . 67 1833 11056
Halmstad . . 63 1307 10 529
Södertälje . . 44 1 672 ’ 9 812
Lidköping . . 43 1 138 8193
Nyköping . . 45 1431 7 976
Huskvarna . . 9 1 739 7 672
Eslöv .... 42 646 7547
Karlskrona . . 50 2158 7 365
Söderhamn . . 46 1 340 7 032
Linköping . . 77 1215 6 810
Falkenberg. . 19 353 6 334
Uddevalla . . 39 1 363 5 907
Vänersborg. . 26 1 135 5 410
Arvika. ... 33 817 5058
Other towns . 1049 19 414 93 996
Towns .... 4 508 138 693 908544
Country distr. 7 820 203 665 1 152 249
The whole
kingdom . . 12 328 342 358 2 060 793
1 It should he pointed out that, in many cases, large factory-industries are carried on in
the immediate neighbourhood of towns; this is the case, for example at Gothenburg,
Sundsvall, etc.: in the above table, consequently, such industry is. placed to the credit of the
country districts.
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