Riina Turunen
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General description
I currently works as an Academic Research Fellow in my project Women´s Work and Wages in Finland, 1600 - 1920.
Active JYU affiliations
- Department of History and Ethnology, Academy Research Fellow
Previous, inactive or other affiliations
- Department of History and Ethnology (University of Jyväskylä), Senior Lecturer, Ended
- Department of History and Ethnology (University of Jyväskylä), Senior Researcher, Ended
Research interests
I am a economic and social historian who focuses on the pre-industrial era. Since September 2023, I am an Academy Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland. My research project Women's work and wages in Finland, 1600–1920 deals with the relationship between economic development and women's economic agency.
In the past, I have worked at the Department of History and Ethnology as a fixed-term senior lecturer and as a postdoctoral researcher in a research project funded by the Academy of Finland, which analyzed the Finnish pre-industrial economic development. In the project, I published my research results on industrialization and built historical price databases and an exchange rate converter. Close to my heart is also the research project on the early economic history of Ylä-Savo, the sub-region located in the province of the Northern Savonia. In this project I co-edit an anthology about the living conditions in the region. In 2017, I defended my doctoral research dealing with bankruptcies in the 19th century. In this, I examined the causes and consequences of economic misfortune and how it was addressed during the period of early industrialization. That is why it can be said that economic difficulties, work and livelihood, credit markets, gender, (in)equality and long-term economic development are my current main areas of interest.
In the past, I have worked at the Department of History and Ethnology as a fixed-term senior lecturer and as a postdoctoral researcher in a research project funded by the Academy of Finland, which analyzed the Finnish pre-industrial economic development. In the project, I published my research results on industrialization and built historical price databases and an exchange rate converter. Close to my heart is also the research project on the early economic history of Ylä-Savo, the sub-region located in the province of the Northern Savonia. In this project I co-edit an anthology about the living conditions in the region. In 2017, I defended my doctoral research dealing with bankruptcies in the 19th century. In this, I examined the causes and consequences of economic misfortune and how it was addressed during the period of early industrialization. That is why it can be said that economic difficulties, work and livelihood, credit markets, gender, (in)equality and long-term economic development are my current main areas of interest.
Fields of science
Follow-up groups
Personal keywords
History; Finnish History; 19th century, pre-industrial period; economic history; social history; gender history; credit; credit system; business failure; bankruptcy; industrialization; exchange rates rates; work; wages
Projects as Principal investigator
- Women´s work and wages in Finland, 1600-1920
- Research Council of Finland
- Ylä-Savon asutus ja elämisen ehdot
- OLVI Foundation
Publications and other outputs
Author of research datasets
- Bankruptcies and bankruptcies of an estate in the town of Vaasa, 1817 - 1900. (2022) Turunen, Riina
- Bankruptcies and surrenders of an estate in the town of Jyväskylä, 1841 - 1900. (2022) Turunen, Riina
- Database: Bankruptcies and surrenders of an estate to creditors in Finnish cities 1810 - 1900 in every 10 years (2022) Turunen, Riina
- Finnish pre-industrial currency converter, 1534-1880 (2022) Turunen, Riina; et al.
