Marjatta Rahikainen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1258768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marjatta Rahikainen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marjatta |
| FAMILY NAME | Rahikainen |
| SIGNATURE | RAHIKAINEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Unfree labour by free peasants: Labour service in the Swedish and Finnish countryside, from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries
This article discusses the received image of free Swedish and Finnish peasants, charting parallels with peasants in the Baltic region. It draws upon the post-Cold War discussion of free and unfree rural labour in early modern Europe. The discussion maintains that the labour service by free Swedish and Finnish peasant landholders and peasant tenants at its heaviest point may have been on a par with the corvée in the early modern Baltic provinces. …
Early Professional Women in Northern Europe, c. 1650–1850
"This book focuses on early examples of women who may be said to have anticipated, in one way or another, modern professional and/or career-oriented women. The contributors to the book discuss women who may at least in some respect be seen as professionally ambitious, unlike the great majority of working women in the past. In order to improve their positions or to find better business opportunities, the women discussed in this book invested in de…
The Fading of the Ancien Régime Mentality: Young upper-class women in imperial St Petersburg and Helsinki (Helsingfors)
This article suggests that marriageable young upper-class women can be taken as indicators of the longue durée of the ancien régime mentality and the stepwise advancement of the bourgeois mentality. This is so because of factors that made such women particularly prone not to break with established conventions. Source materials in this analysis are taken from contemporary non-fiction texts in which 19th-century St Petersburg and Helsinki serve as …
Johanna Ilmakunnas, Kartanot, kapiot, rykmentit: Erään aatelissuvun elämäntapa 1700-luvun Ruotsissa (Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011). 524 s
Zu alt für den Arbeitsmarkt. Arbeitslosenrenten als Rationalisierungsmaßnahme in Finnland in den 1980er Jahren in einer historischen Perspektive
This article argues that welfare schemes, which served to remove elderly workers from the labour force around the 1970s, foreshadowed the breakdown of the world of work in which permanent employment contracts and secure jobs until old-age retirement were the norm. As the global economy put heavier pressure on profitability and all sectors became subject to international shareholder scanning, the policy of ‘lifelong jobs’ began to give way to flex…
Children Educating Children: Young Girls as Nursemaids in Sweden and Finland, Late Nineteenth to Mid‐Twentieth Century
Autobiographies of the upper and middle classes abound with descriptions of servants who seem to have been in charge of the master's children day and night. What we usually gain is the perspective of the master's children, while servants' own accounts are few. How did they feel about their responsibility for the master's children? It was common to hire young girls to take care of infants but what did the girls themselves think of the job or the m…
Anticipating the Globalisation of Labour: Finnish Women as Immigrant and Offshore Labour for the Swedish Economy
This paper considers the cases of labour migration from Finland to Sweden and Finnish women workers in Swedish firms in Finland as small-scale examples to discuss three issues. Firstly, it assesses the usefulness of concepts derived from the historic Atlantic migration, such as the ‘friends and relatives effect’, the wage gap and ‘catching up’. Secondly, it examines the kind of migration pattern that materialised when traditional obstacles to mig…
Women in Relief Work: Female unemployment in Helsinki before World War II
This article suggests that it could be fruitful to approach women's employment in the context of the labour market rather than the household. In Finland until World War II, the public‐work schemes and relief work were the preferred policies concerning unemployed men and women. Women eligible to relief work were taken to work in mainly textiles in non‐residential workhouses. The difficulties faced in applying the ‘workfare’ policy to unemployed wo…
First-generation factory children: Child labour in textile manufacturing in nineteenth-century Finland
Compulsory Child Labour: Parish Paupers as Indentured Servants in Finland, c. 1810–1920
This article challenges the interpretations by Viviana Zelizer and Clark Nardinelli of bound labour by farmed-out parish pauper children. Using the case of Finland, supported by the example of Sweden, it is argued that the exploitation of parish pauper children may have increased in the nineteenth century due to increasing adoption of a monetary economy in the countryside. As the productivity of a growing child fell short of his or her consumptio…
Children and “the right to factory work”: Child labour legislation in nineteenth-century Finland
The early nineteenth-century factory laws are usually seen as the first steps towards the abolition of industrial child labour. It is here asked whether such appears to be the case only with hindsight, given that we know that industrial child labour eventually disappeared in the West. In all of nineteenth-century Finland no legislator spoke up for the abolition of industrial child labour, despite the fact that they were well informed about the re…
Ageing Men and Women in the Labour Market Continuity and Change
In this article it is argued that men and women have been considered as "too old" in the labour market at an earlier age than people in general have been considered old, irrespectively of the actual biological life expectancy. The article discusses, first, farm servants in the old peasant society on the basis of the Swedish Hired Labour Acts, and, second, the migration restrictions imposed on elderly servants. The third point of discussion concer…
Historical and present-day child labour: Is there a gap or a bridge between them
This article suggests that analyses of child labour today should take as their point of comparison poorer nineteenth-century continental European countries, rather than the more commonly cited analogy of industrializing Britain. Two aspects of comparison between the nineteenth-century Finnish experience and today's developing economies are especially relevant. The first is the role of foreign investors in introducing industrial child labour in th…
The last Travellers-Gypsies and Lapps on the way to modern society
Racism in a "homogeneous" society
(1996). Racism in a “homogeneous” society. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the study of European Ideas, pp. 433-438
The fading of compulsory labour: The displacement of work by hobbies in the reformatory schools of twentieth-century Finland
In early modern Europe, compulsory labour was generally regarded as a correct policy towards the poor and marginal population, and no significant difference was made between adults and children until the late nineteenth century. In the course of the twentieth century, compulsory labour in various welfare institutions for minors or adults was generally abandoned, being replaced by other activities. Why did labour lose its status as a panacea? The …
Children Educating Children: Young Girls as Nursemaids in Sweden and Finland, Late Nineteenth to Mid‐Twentieth Century
Autobiographies of the upper and middle classes abound with descriptions of servants who seem to have been in charge of the master's children day and night. What we usually gain is the perspective of the master's children, while servants' own accounts are few. How did they feel about their responsibility for the master's children? It was common to hire young girls to take care of infants but what did the girls themselves think of the job or the m…
Women in Relief Work: Female unemployment in Helsinki before World War II
This article suggests that it could be fruitful to approach women's employment in the context of the labour market rather than the household. In Finland until World War II, the public‐work schemes and relief work were the preferred policies concerning unemployed men and women. Women eligible to relief work were taken to work in mainly textiles in non‐residential workhouses. The difficulties faced in applying the ‘workfare’ policy to unemployed wo…
Compulsory Child Labour: Parish Paupers as Indentured Servants in Finland, c. 1810–1920
This article challenges the interpretations by Viviana Zelizer and Clark Nardinelli of bound labour by farmed-out parish pauper children. Using the case of Finland, supported by the example of Sweden, it is argued that the exploitation of parish pauper children may have increased in the nineteenth century due to increasing adoption of a monetary economy in the countryside. As the productivity of a growing child fell short of his or her consumptio…
The fading of compulsory labour: The displacement of work by hobbies in the reformatory schools of twentieth-century Finland
In early modern Europe, compulsory labour was generally regarded as a correct policy towards the poor and marginal population, and no significant difference was made between adults and children until the late nineteenth century. In the course of the twentieth century, compulsory labour in various welfare institutions for minors or adults was generally abandoned, being replaced by other activities. Why did labour lose its status as a panacea? The …
Racism in a "homogeneous" society
(1996). Racism in a “homogeneous” society. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the study of European Ideas, pp. 433-438
The last Travellers-Gypsies and Lapps on the way to modern society
Children and “the right to factory work”: Child labour legislation in nineteenth-century Finland
The early nineteenth-century factory laws are usually seen as the first steps towards the abolition of industrial child labour. It is here asked whether such appears to be the case only with hindsight, given that we know that industrial child labour eventually disappeared in the West. In all of nineteenth-century Finland no legislator spoke up for the abolition of industrial child labour, despite the fact that they were well informed about the re…
Ageing Men and Women in the Labour Market Continuity and Change
In this article it is argued that men and women have been considered as "too old" in the labour market at an earlier age than people in general have been considered old, irrespectively of the actual biological life expectancy. The article discusses, first, farm servants in the old peasant society on the basis of the Swedish Hired Labour Acts, and, second, the migration restrictions imposed on elderly servants. The third point of discussion concer…
Historical and present-day child labour: Is there a gap or a bridge between them
This article suggests that analyses of child labour today should take as their point of comparison poorer nineteenth-century continental European countries, rather than the more commonly cited analogy of industrializing Britain. Two aspects of comparison between the nineteenth-century Finnish experience and today's developing economies are especially relevant. The first is the role of foreign investors in introducing industrial child labour in th…
First-generation factory children: Child labour in textile manufacturing in nineteenth-century Finland
Compulsory Child Labour: Parish Paupers as Indentured Servants in Finland, c. 1810–1920
This article challenges the interpretations by Viviana Zelizer and Clark Nardinelli of bound labour by farmed-out parish pauper children. Using the case of Finland, supported by the example of Sweden, it is argued that the exploitation of parish pauper children may have increased in the nineteenth century due to increasing adoption of a monetary economy in the countryside. As the productivity of a growing child fell short of his or her consumptio…
Women in Relief Work: Female unemployment in Helsinki before World War II
This article suggests that it could be fruitful to approach women's employment in the context of the labour market rather than the household. In Finland until World War II, the public‐work schemes and relief work were the preferred policies concerning unemployed men and women. Women eligible to relief work were taken to work in mainly textiles in non‐residential workhouses. The difficulties faced in applying the ‘workfare’ policy to unemployed wo…
Children Educating Children: Young Girls as Nursemaids in Sweden and Finland, Late Nineteenth to Mid‐Twentieth Century
Autobiographies of the upper and middle classes abound with descriptions of servants who seem to have been in charge of the master's children day and night. What we usually gain is the perspective of the master's children, while servants' own accounts are few. How did they feel about their responsibility for the master's children? It was common to hire young girls to take care of infants but what did the girls themselves think of the job or the m…
Anticipating the Globalisation of Labour: Finnish Women as Immigrant and Offshore Labour for the Swedish Economy
This paper considers the cases of labour migration from Finland to Sweden and Finnish women workers in Swedish firms in Finland as small-scale examples to discuss three issues. Firstly, it assesses the usefulness of concepts derived from the historic Atlantic migration, such as the ‘friends and relatives effect’, the wage gap and ‘catching up’. Secondly, it examines the kind of migration pattern that materialised when traditional obstacles to mig…
Zu alt für den Arbeitsmarkt. Arbeitslosenrenten als Rationalisierungsmaßnahme in Finnland in den 1980er Jahren in einer historischen Perspektive
This article argues that welfare schemes, which served to remove elderly workers from the labour force around the 1970s, foreshadowed the breakdown of the world of work in which permanent employment contracts and secure jobs until old-age retirement were the norm. As the global economy put heavier pressure on profitability and all sectors became subject to international shareholder scanning, the policy of ‘lifelong jobs’ began to give way to flex…
Johanna Ilmakunnas, Kartanot, kapiot, rykmentit: Erään aatelissuvun elämäntapa 1700-luvun Ruotsissa (Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011). 524 s
The Fading of the Ancien Régime Mentality: Young upper-class women in imperial St Petersburg and Helsinki (Helsingfors)
This article suggests that marriageable young upper-class women can be taken as indicators of the longue durée of the ancien régime mentality and the stepwise advancement of the bourgeois mentality. This is so because of factors that made such women particularly prone not to break with established conventions. Source materials in this analysis are taken from contemporary non-fiction texts in which 19th-century St Petersburg and Helsinki serve as …
Early Professional Women in Northern Europe, c. 1650–1850
"This book focuses on early examples of women who may be said to have anticipated, in one way or another, modern professional and/or career-oriented women. The contributors to the book discuss women who may at least in some respect be seen as professionally ambitious, unlike the great majority of working women in the past. In order to improve their positions or to find better business opportunities, the women discussed in this book invested in de…
Unfree labour by free peasants: Labour service in the Swedish and Finnish countryside, from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries
This article discusses the received image of free Swedish and Finnish peasants, charting parallels with peasants in the Baltic region. It draws upon the post-Cold War discussion of free and unfree rural labour in early modern Europe. The discussion maintains that the labour service by free Swedish and Finnish peasant landholders and peasant tenants at its heaviest point may have been on a par with the corvée in the early modern Baltic provinces. …
Political science (12 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Labour economics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Child labour (4 works) · History (4 works)