Lived Institutions as History of Experience

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Experience, Institutions, and the Lived Welfare State -- Introduction -- History of Experience and the Lived Welfare State -- Institutions -- The Current Volume -- Bibliography -- Published Sources -- Literature -- Part I: Encounters with Institutions -- Chapter 2: Navigating Imprisonment: Tactics and Experiences in an Eighteenth-Century Danish Prison Workhouse -- Introduction -- A Prison Between Poor Relief and Punishment -- The Structures of Prison Experience -- Petitioning the Authorities -- Escaping the Authorities -- Negotiating with the Authorities -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Copenhagen City Archives (CCA) -- The Danish National Archives (DNA) -- Published Sources -- Literature -- Chapter 3: The Experience of Prison in Finnish Female Inmates' Letters from the 1880s to the 1900s -- Introduction -- Communicating Deviancy -- Communicating Loneliness -- Communicating Improvement -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- National Archives of Finland (NAF) -- Digital Archives of Finnish Family History Association (FFHA) -- Finnish National Museum -- Published Sources -- Literature -- Chapter 4: Re-negotiating Single Motherhood Within the Helsinki Mother and Child Home in Post-War Finland -- Introduction -- The Idea of a Separate Home -- Imagined and Aspired Institution in Women's Letters -- Encounters with Built and Regulated Space -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Labour Archives of Finland (LAF) -- Published Sources -- Literature -- Part II: Lived Social Citizenship -- Chapter 5: The Construction of Early Social Citizenship: The Lived Institution of Poor Relief in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Finland -- Introduction -- Local Citizenship -- Beyond Locality.

This open access book focuses on institutions that were produced and formed by the emerging welfare state. How were institutions experienced by the people who interacted with them? How did institutions as sites of experience shape and structure people's everyday lives? Histories of institutions have mainly focused on the structures and power relations produced by institutional settings. Likewise, despite an extensive historiography of the welfare state, reflections on individuals' experiences of welfare are few. By using 'lived institutions' as its conceptual frame, this edited collection merges the fields of institutional studies, the history of the welfare state - and the novel and vibrant field of the history of experience