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-321 vii. manufacturing industries.
culture, mining and allied manufactures form a very important source of
livelihood for the people. Finally, in northern Sweden, agriculture is, to
some extent, minimised by the timber industry, and, in the far north,
by mining.
The characteristics that may be specially ascribed to Swedish industry
are the employment of the very best materials —- in some cases almost
unnecessarily superior in quality — and, moreover, honest and careful
workmanship. This last-mentioned characteristic of Swedish
manufactures is due, in great measure, to the personal interest that Swedish
artisans very frequently take in the work they have in hand, and their
pronounced objection towards letting anything come from their hands that
is not perfected to the best of their ability. On the other hand, it may be
said that the mechanical skill in routine production possessed by the
Swedish workmen is not always as great as might be wished; this, again, is
due to the fact that production is often necessarily carried on on a small
scale, precluding a thoroughly satisfactory distribution of special processes
exclusively among specially expert hands. The result of these
circumstances is that the products of Swedish industry are, as a rule, of excellent
quality, but not infrequently so dear that it is difficult for them to
compete with goods imported from countries where manufactures can
be carried on on so much vaster a scale. A contributory cause to the
expensiveness of Swedish manufactured goods is also the fact, to which
21—133179. Sweden. II.
Bust of John Ericsson, Stockholm.
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