Skill and Technical Change in the Swedish Iron Industry, 1750-1860

摘要

For centuries the iron industry was the most important sector of the Swedish economy after agriculture. The export of bar iron to Great Britain and other countries often made up more than 75 percent of total Swedish exports during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the expanding lumber industry gradually supplanted the iron industry's position, but iron and steel have remained important to the Swedish economy.