Female Household Servants in the Seventeenth-Century Town of Turku in South-West Finland

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dc.contributor.authorToropainen, Veli Pekka
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dc.contributor.organization-code1.2.246.10.2458963.20.53046050752
dc.converis.publication-id523695810
dc.converis.urlhttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/Publication/523695810
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-05T20:12:29Z
dc.description.abstract<p>This chapter is based on the results of research concentrating on the agency of seventeenth-century female domestic servants in Turku, south-west Finland, between 1639 and 1700. There are about 2000 Magistrates’ court cases concerning the position and life of female domestic servants in the town. Indeed, female servants made up 15 per cent of the whole population of Turku annually. They are thought to have been under the power of their masters and mistresses without any rights to show their own opinion or will. The state and the Lutheran church gave orders regarding the servants’ position in the master’s family, and these orders rarely mentioned any rights—only duties. However, as I show in this chapter, servants’ voices can be heard through these court documents, which describe their life more widely and reveal their own choices and motives. I deal with these specific features in this chapter and reveal how the stories in the Magistrates’ court records describe the ideas of female servants and their employers about work, and the status and aspirations of servants.<br></p>
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dc.identifier.eisbn978-3-032-14760-8
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-032-14759-2
dc.identifier.issn2731-9474
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.utupub.fi/handle/11111/61610
dc.identifier.urlhttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-14760-8_4
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi-fe2026060261769
dc.language.isoen
dc.okm.affiliatedauthorToropainen, Veli Pekka
dc.okm.discipline615 History and archaeologyen_GB
dc.okm.discipline615 Historia ja arkeologiafi_FI
dc.okm.internationalcopublicationnot an international co-publication
dc.okm.internationalityInternational publication
dc.okm.typeA3 Book
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillan
dc.publisher.countrySwitzerlanden_GB
dc.publisher.countrySveitsifi_FI
dc.publisher.country-codeCH
dc.publisher.isbn978-3-319; 978-0-230; 978-0-333; 978-1-137; 978-1-349; 978-1-4472; 978-1-78632; 978-0-312; 978-1-4039; 978-1-137; 978-981-13; 978-981-10; 978-3-030; 978-981-15; 978-981-16; 978-3-031; 978-3-032;
dc.relation.doi10.1007/978-3-032-14760-8_4
dc.relation.ispartofseriesLabour in History and Society
dc.titleFemale Household Servants in the Seventeenth-Century Town of Turku in South-West Finland
dc.title.bookShort-term Labour and Precarious Work in Northern Europe, c. 1620-1870
dc.year.issued2026

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