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Turun kehruuhuone oli vankila, jonka asukkaat olivat 1820-luvulta lähtien pääasiassa irtolaisuudesta vangittuja naisia. Artikkeli esittelee vankeusmaantieteellisiä tulkintamalleja niukkaan lähdeaineistoon, jota laitoksen hallinto tuotti vuosina 1820–1825. Tutkimustehtävänä on selvittää yhtäältä, millaisia toimintaperiaatteita hallinto toteutti laitoksen tiloista päättäessään, ja toisaalta, millaisia toimintamahdollisuuksia nämä tilat loivat vangeille. Artikkelissa esitetään, että vankilatilan eri funktiot toteutuivat samanaikaisesti kerroksina, joiden tiheys vaihteli tilassa ja ajassa. Lisäksi tuodaan esiin laitoksen sairashuone, kirkko ja romanitaustaisille vangeille varattu huone välittävinä alueina, joissa vankien saattoi ollamahdollista käyttäytyä "normaalista" poikkeavalla tavalla. Artikkelissa todetaan myös, että vankilan tiloissa vietetty aika ei välttämättä jättänyt vankeihin pysyvää kehollista stigmaa, sillä laitoksen olot eivät olleet huonommat kuin köyhällä kansalla keskimäärin ja koska hallinto pyrki välttämään leiman syntymistä.

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

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.

With soap, water, and diligence discusses attitudes and practices around cleanliness and health at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At this time, scientific findings on how diseases spread had rendered both the body and the home as particularly risky in terms of the health of an individual. However, the zeal for cleaning was more than just a health issue – it also contributed to societal change at large. This book aims at deepening our understanding of cleanliness in relation to social class, gender, work, consumption, and space, viewed from a Nordic perspective. The battle against dirt was fought on a broad front, and on different levels of society. The book at hands offers glimpses of the long and complex societal process which was required for the Nordic societies to grow cleaner over time. Behind the gradually increasing interest in soap and lather lay challenges, negotiations, and disagreements about the ways in which cleanliness should be advanced, and who would be the ones advancing it. To establish the supremacy of soap required a lot of hard work. The ten chapters shed light on the interaction between debaters, voluntary associations, institutions, and individuals. How was cleanliness promoted and what was the reception like? Who and what was to be cleaned, and on which terms? What did cleanliness mean in different contexts and for different individuals? The book makes both ideals and practices visible by exploring the ways in which the gospel of cleanliness was presented, propagated, understood, questioned and renewed, and also by showing that in some cases people's quest for cleanliness had motivations other than those intended by the promoters. The chapters have been written by economic historians, ethnologists, social historians, and historians of ideas from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The book is intended for students, scholars and the general reading audience interested in a social historical perspective on cleanliness

Approaches to changing values of upbringing and education in the Nordic societies / Ulla Aatsinki, Johanna Annola, and Mervi Kaarninen -- How to raise good children?: disciplinary correction in early modern advice books / Satu Lidman -- When parenting fails: religious upbringing, discipline, and public disapproval in early modern Finland / Raisa Toivo -- The inheritance of a good life: how the ideals of the good life have been negotiated and transmitted between generations in Finland and Canada / Antti Häkkinen -- German families and their family strategies: marriage and education in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century provincial towns in the Northern Baltic / Ulla Ijäs -- Knowledge transfer within artisan families in early nineteenth-century rural Finland / Merja Uotila -- Culture, context, and family networks: values and knowledge transfers among Eastern European Jews in the Nordic countries, 1880-1940 / Vibeke Kieding Banik and Laura Ekholm -- Parents know better?: the influence of parents on young people's transitions from compulsory schooling to work and further education in early 1960s Helsinki / Sinikka Selin -- Rethinking social mobility: the social background and career of students from the "Vyborg nation", 1833-1899 / Olli Matikainen -- A place in the sun?: education as a middle-class family value in nineteenth-century Finland / Johanna Annola -- "Gifted girls": the values, attitudes, and experiences of the first generation of Finnish female students in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Mervi Kaarninen -- Transferring political heritage: Finnish-American communities and civic education / Ulla Aatsinki -- Sami schoolchildren and the transfer of knowledge and culture in the twentieth century / Astri Andresen -- Schooling the Muslim family: the Danish school system, foreign workers, and their children from the 1970s to the early 1990s / Mette Buchardt.

"This edited collection sheds light on Nordic families' strategies and methods for transferring significant cultural heritage to the next generation over centuries. Contributors explore why certain values, attitudes, knowledge, and patterns were selected while others were left behind, and show how these decisions served and secured families' well-being and values. Covering a time span ranging from the early modern era to the end of the twentieth century, the book combines the innovative "history from below" approach with a broad variety of families and new kinds of source material to open up new perspectives on the history of education and upbringing"--