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Enterprising care? : unpaid voluntary action in the 21st century /
More is being expected of volunteers and the voluntary sector in the UK. This text seeks to add new insights of individual action in that part of the economy that is beyond the state and the market. Volunteering is examined from the perspective of the individual, the organisation, and the community...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol ; Portland, OR :
Policy Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Enterprising care?
- Contents
- List of tables, figures and boxes
- List of abbreviations
- Notes on the authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Fixing Britain's 'broken' society: from the Third Way to Big Society
- Introduction
- Unpaid voluntary work
- The voluntary and community sector
- The book
- Researching volunteering and the voluntary and community sector
- Conclusion
- 2. Theoretical underpinnings of voluntary work and voluntary organisations: work, care or enterprise?
- Introduction
- Caring for others, the ethics of care and communities
- Work: thinking beyond paid employment
- The lure of enterprise
- Conclusion
- 3. Understanding the journeys of individual volunteers: demanding community concern, or demonstrating job readiness?
- Introduction
- Public policy and volunteering
- Volunteer motivation
- Pathways to volunteering: a case study of Brightville
- Conclusion
- 4. A professional paradox? 'Managing' volunteers involuntary and community sector organisations
- Introduction
- Managing volunteers: the issues
- Growth in the paid workforce
- Careers in the voluntary and community sector
- The search for a professional identity
- Conclusions
- 5. Voluntary and community sector organisations as enterprising care providers: keeping organisational values distinctive
- Introduction: organisations that involve volunteers
- Size, scope and diversity of the voluntary and community sector
- State-sponsored VCSOs and the provision of care
- VCSOs as service providers: innovation and trust
- Making VCSOs more enterprising
- Evidence from the front line: changing organisations
- Conclusion: making sense of it
- 6. Volunteering: an articulation of caring communities
- Introduction
- Community studies
- Community and public policy
- Brightville: a case study
- Conclusion.
- 7. Volunteering: caring for people like me
- Introduction
- Communities of interest: a case study of Age UK
- Conclusion
- 8. The big issue of the Big Society: mobilising communities alongside fiscal austerity
- Introduction: the Year of the Volunteer
- Reflections on the scope and context of the book
- What next? The Big Society and fiscal austerity
- Approach to research: co-produced knowledge
- Back to communities
- Bibliography
- Index.