Pirjo Markkola

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First Name

Pirjo

Last Name

Markkola

Country

Finland

MC member or Substitute?

MC member

Working groups

Working Group 2 - The Mixed Economy of Welfare, Working Group 4 - Intellectual Traditions in European Welfare: Voluntary Associations, Families and The State

Research interests relevant in the context of this COST action

gender, social welfare, religion, lived welfare state, Nordic countries

Discipline

History

Current academic (or professional) position

Professor

Up to 3 most important publications

“Focusing on the Family: the Lutheran Church and the Making of the Nordic Welfare State in Finland”. Journal of State and Church vol 56, issue 1, 2014, pp. 60–80.
”Family duties in the history of poor relief and social legislation in Finland”. In Pauli Kettunen, Stein Kuhnle & Yuan Ren (eds.), Reshaping welfare institutions in China and the Nordic countries. NordWel Studies in Historical Welfare State Research 7. Helsinki 2014, pp. 141–164.
“Conducting Commissioned Research: The Finnish Inquiry into the Failures of Child Welfare, 1937–83”. Scandinavian Journal of History 2020. With Antti Malinen and Kirsi-Maria Hytönen.

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