1. Experience, Institutions, and the Lived Welfare State; Johanna Annola, Hanna Lindberg, and Pirjo Markkola
Part I Encounters with Institutions
2. Navigating Imprisonment: Tactics and Experiences in an Eighteenth-Century Danish Prison Workhouse; Emilie Luther Valentin
3. The Experience of Prison in Finnish Female Inmates’ Letters from the 1880s to the 1900s; Johanna Annola
4. Re-negotiating Single Motherhood within the Helsinki Mother and Child Home in Post-War Finland; Riikka Suominen
Part II Lived Social Citizenship
5. The Construction of Early Social Citizenship: The Lived Institution of Poor Relief in Mid-Nineteenth Century Finland; Heikki Kokko
6. Encountering Benefits for Families: Layers of Lived Social Citizenship in Finland in the 1930s and 1940s; Minna Harjula
7. From Humiliation to Compensation? Experiencing Poverty and Welfare Institutions among Red Widows from the Civil War, 1918–1945; Mervi Kaarninen
Part III Experiencing Institutional Spaces
8. Managing Disability and Constructing the Nation in Interwar Poland: The Lviv Disabled Veterans’ Home; Oksana Vynnyk
9. The Walled-in Illness: The Twentieth Century Finnish Tuberculosis Sanatorium as Lived Space; Heini Hakosalo
10. “It Went All the Way Down to the Shoes”: Experiences of Institutionalization in the Danish Special Care System for the Intellectually Disabled, 1933–1980; Klaus Petersen and Sarah Smed
Part IV Dealing with Institutional Experiences
11. Lived Residential Schools in Times of Crisis and Change: Debating the School for the Deaf in Borgå through Experience in the 1930s and 1980s; Hanna Lindberg
12. Stories of Silence, Echoes of Events: The Family as a Changing Site of Illness; Marie Meier
13. Redressing or Excusing the Past? The Evaluation of Sexual Child Abuse in the Swedish Redress Scheme for Historical Abuse in out-of-Home Care; Johanna Sköld, Bengt Sandin, and Johanna Schiratzki.