The Promise of Kiruna's Iron Ore in the Swedish Imagination, c.1901–1915
Iron ore mining in the Norrbotten region of Sweden began in the early years of the twentieth century as a commercially uncertain and even dangerous proposition. But even before it began to generate profits, public debate began over the appropriate role of the state and of private capital (including...
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ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-167086 2024-09-15T18:15:43+00:00 The Promise of Kiruna's Iron Ore in the Swedish Imagination, c.1901–1915 Roberts, Peder 2019 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-167086 https://doi.org/10.36368/jns.v13i1.941 eng eng University of Stavanger, Norway UmeÃ¥ : UmeÃ¥ University; The Royal Skyttean Society Journal of Northern Studies, 1654-5915, 2019, 13:1, s. 35-60 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-167086 doi:10.36368/jns.v13i1.941 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Kiruna iron ore economics Sweden LKAB Norrbotten History Historia Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2019 ftumeauniv https://doi.org/10.36368/jns.v13i1.941 2024-07-09T23:37:52Z Iron ore mining in the Norrbotten region of Sweden began in the early years of the twentieth century as a commercially uncertain and even dangerous proposition. But even before it began to generate profits, public debate began over the appropriate role of the state and of private capital (including foreign investors). This included whether iron ore should be exported for profit or retained for future processing in Sweden—even though the technology and infrastructure for such domestic industry did not exist. Tracing the evolution of this debate in the Swedish news media through to the First World War, this paper argues that the revenue generated by exports became more attractive than the promise of future domestic industry because that revenue could underwrite pressing political objectives. Although domestic iron ore processing remained linked to visions of future industrial prosperity, uncertain visions of future prosperity lost appeal as the capacity for export revenues to generate prosperity in the present became more potent. Article in Journal/Newspaper Journal of Northern Studies Kiruna Norrbotten Umeå University: Publications (DiVA) Journal of Northern Studies 13 1 35 60 |
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Iron ore mining in the Norrbotten region of Sweden began in the early years of the twentieth century as a commercially uncertain and even dangerous proposition. But even before it began to generate profits, public debate began over the appropriate role of the state and of private capital (including foreign investors). This included whether iron ore should be exported for profit or retained for future processing in Sweden—even though the technology and infrastructure for such domestic industry did not exist. Tracing the evolution of this debate in the Swedish news media through to the First World War, this paper argues that the revenue generated by exports became more attractive than the promise of future domestic industry because that revenue could underwrite pressing political objectives. Although domestic iron ore processing remained linked to visions of future industrial prosperity, uncertain visions of future prosperity lost appeal as the capacity for export revenues to generate prosperity in the present became more potent. |
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The Promise of Kiruna's Iron Ore in the Swedish Imagination, c.1901–1915 |
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The Promise of Kiruna's Iron Ore in the Swedish Imagination, c.1901–1915 |
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The Promise of Kiruna's Iron Ore in the Swedish Imagination, c.1901–1915 |
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The Promise of Kiruna's Iron Ore in the Swedish Imagination, c.1901–1915 |
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The Promise of Kiruna's Iron Ore in the Swedish Imagination, c.1901–1915 |
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University of Stavanger, Norway |
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Journal of Northern Studies, 1654-5915, 2019, 13:1, s. 35-60 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-167086 doi:10.36368/jns.v13i1.941 |
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