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The Capital Goods Industry

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This chapter provides an outline of the capital industry in Norway in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and its linkages to the mining sector. The author uses secondary literature and company records of Trondhjem Mechanical Workshop and the Bede Metal and Chemical Co. Ltd. and shows that mining companies increased their use of local workshops for complex machinery, power stations, equipment, and other technical inputs in the late nineteenth century. The increased connections between the two sectors were partly due to the mechanical workshops' specialisations and adaptations to demand.

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  1. 1.

    For a review of literature on this subject, see B. Nelson and A. Behar, “Natural Resources, Growth and Spatially-Based Development: A View of the Literature” (Washington, DC, 2008).

  2. 2.

    E. Rugraff and M. W. Hansen, Multinational Corporations and Local Firms in Emerging Economies (Amsterdam, 2011), p. 30.

  3. 3.

    Larsen, Yankson and Fold, “Does FDI Create Linkages in Mining? The Case of Gold Mining in Ghana” in Transnational Corporations and Development Policy, Rugraff, Sánchez-Ancochea and Summer, 2009, pp. 248–249.

  4. 4.

    See F. A. Encina, Nuestra inferioridad Económica Sus Causas, sus Consecuencias (Santiago, 1912); A. Pinto Santa Cruz, Chile, un caso de desarrollo frustrado (Santiago, 1959); J. Pinto Vallejos and L. Ortega Martínez, Expansión minera y desarrollo industrial: un caso de crecimiento asociado (Chile 1950–1914) (Santiago, 2004); A. Soto Cardenas, Influencia británica en el salitre: origen, naturaleza y decadencia (Santiago, 1998); M. Wilkins, The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise: American business abroad from the colonial era to 1914 (Cambridge, 1970); L. Hiliart, Braden Historia de una mina (Chile, 1964).

  5. 5.

    Larsen, Yankson and Fold, “Does FDI Create Linkages in Mining? The Case of Gold Mining in Ghana” in Transnational Corporations and Development Policy, Rugraff, Sánchez-Ancochea and Summer, 2009, pp. 248–249.

  6. 6.

    M. Wilkins, The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise: American business abroad from 1914 to 1970 (Cambridge, 1974), p. 125.

  7. 7.

    G. Jones , Multinationals and Global Capitalism (Oxford, 2005), 274–275.

  8. 8.

    M. C. Baros Mansilla, Una historia de pioneros (Santiago, 2006), 61.

  9. 9.

    K. Ranestad, “The mining sectors in Chile and Norway”, thesis, Geneva, 2015, 222–223.

  10. 10.

    See K. Ranestad, “The mining sectors in Chile and Norway”, thesis, Geneva, 2015, 230–321.

  11. 11.

    G. Jones , Multinationals and Global Capitalism (Oxford, 2005), p. 262.

  12. 12.

    UNCTAD, “World Investment Report 2001 Promoting Linkages” (New York and Geneva, 2001), p. xxi.

  13. 13.

    For discussions about enclaves, see A. Pinto Santa Cruz, Chile, un caso de desarrollo frustrado (Santiago, 1959); M. J. Mamalakis, The growth and structure of the Chilean economy (London and New Haven, 1976); S. Macchiavello Varas, El problema de la industria del cobre en Chile y sus proyecciones económicas y sociales (Santiago, 2010).

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    N. Rosenberg , Perspectives on Technology (London, 1977), p. 157.

  15. 15.

    G. Jones , Multinationals and Global Capitalism (Oxford, 2005), p. 272.

  16. 16.

    UNCTAD, “World Investment Report 2001 Promoting Linkages” (New York and Geneva, 2001), p. 133.

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    M. Arias et al., “Large Mining Enterprises”, Documentos de Trabajo en Economía, UCN, 2012, p. 6.

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    E. Rugraff and M. W. Hansen, Multinational Corporations and Local Firms in Emerging Economies (Amsterdam, 2011), p. 19; G. Jones , Multinationals and Global Capitalism (Oxford, 2005), p. 272.

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    M. N. Larsen et al., “Does FDI Create Linkages in Mining? The Case of Gold Mining in Ghana” in Transnational Corporations and Development Policy, E. Rugraff et al. (Basingstoke, 2009), pp. 248–249.

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    UNCTAD, “World Investment Report 2001 Promoting Linkages” (New York and Geneva, 2001), p. 138.

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    K. Bruland , “Norsk mekanisk verkstedindustri og teknologioverføring 1840–1900”, in Teknologi i virksomhet: verkstedindustri i Norge etter 1840, E. Lange (ed.) (Oslo, 1989), p. 72.

  25. 25.

    E. Lange (ed.), Teknologi i virksomhet: verkstedindustri i Norge etter 1840 (Oslo, 1989), pp. 17–22.

  26. 26.

    F. Hodne and O. H. Grytten, Norsk økonomi i det nittende århundre (Bergen, 2000), pp. 198–199.

  27. 27.

    B. I. Berg, Gruveteknikk ved Kongsberg Sølvverk 1623–1914 (Trondheim, 1998), pp. 321–355.

  28. 28.

    F. Hodne and O. H. Grytten, Norsk økonomi i det nittende århundre (Bergen, 2000), p. 201.

  29. 29.

    F. Sæland, Bergingeniør Emil Knudsens erindringer Inntrykk fra et bergmannsliv 1856–1897 (Kongsberg, 2005), pp. 117–118.

  30. 30.

    B. I. Berg, Gruveteknikk ved Kongsberg Sølvverk 1623–1914 (Trondheim, 1998), pp. 421 and 450.

  31. 31.

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  32. 32.

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  33. 33.

    G. B. Nissen, Røros Kobberverk 1644–1974 (Trondheim, 1976), pp. 191–92.

  34. 34.

    O. Schmidt, Aktieselskapet Trondhjems mekaniske verksted 1843–1943 (Trondheim, 1945), pp. 174–181.

  35. 35.

    Trondhjem Mekaniske Verksted, privatarkiv 310 [private archive], NTNU University Library (Dora), industritegninger, Røros Kobberverk år 1885–1909, industritegninger Fosdalens Bergverk 1895–1936 and industritegninger Sulitjelma Gruver 1900–1956.

  36. 36.

    Bede Metal Killingdal, privatarkiv 107 [private archive], Statsarkivet i Trondheim, 12 kassabok nov. 1919-des. 1919.

  37. 37.

    Bede Metal Killingdal, privatarkiv 107 [private archive], Statsarkivet i Trondheim, 11 kassabok nov. 1906-okt.1919; 12 kassabok nov. 1919-des. 1919.

  38. 38.

    Bede Metal Killingdal, privatarkiv 107 [private archive], Statsarkivet i Trondheim, 10 kassabok sept. 1895; okt. 1906; 11 kassabok nov. 1906-okt.1919.

  39. 39.

    Bede Metal Killingdal, privatarkiv 107 [private archive], Statsarkivet i Trondheim, 11 kassabok nov. 1906-okt.1919.

  40. 40.

    Bede Metal Killingdal, privatarkiv 107 [private archive], Statsarkivet i Trondheim, 10 kassabok sept. 1895.okt. 1906.

  41. 41.

    Bede Metal Killingdal, privatarkiv 107 [private archive], Statsarkivet i Trondheim, 10 kassabok sept. 1895.okt. 1906.

  42. 42.

    Bede Metal Killingdal, privatarkiv 107 [private archive], Statsarkivet i Trondheim, 11 kassabok nov. 1906-okt.1919.

  43. 43.

    Bede Metal Killingdal, privatarkiv 107 [private archive], Statsarkivet i Trondheim, 10 kassabok sept. 1895.okt. 1906.

  44. 44.

    Bede Metal Killingdal, privatarkiv 107, Statsarkivet i Trondheim, 11 kassabok nov. 1906-okt.1919; 12 kassabok nov. 1919-des. 1919; kassabok jan. 1920-des. 1925; kassabok jan. 1926-des. 1931; kassabok jan. 1932-jul. 1938; kassabok aug. 1930-aug. 1945.

  45. 45.

    F. Hodne and O. H. Grytten, Norsk økonomi i det nittende århundre (Bergen, 2000), pp. 198–199.

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