Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost. Greater prominence has led to a narrow and distorted view of what voluntary action involves and how it is undertaken. This book reasserts the case for a broader view of voluntarism as a unique set of autonomous activities.
Innehållsförteckning
1. Introduction: Why The Theory and Practice of Voluntary Action Need Rethinking PART I: THE CONTEXT 2. Revisiting the Roots of Voluntary Action 3. The Invention of the Voluntary Sector and its Consequences 4. The Invention of Voluntary Work and its Consequences PART II: PRESSURES AND INFLUENCES 5. A Perilous Partnership? Voluntary Action and the State 6. Selling Out? Voluntary Action and the Market 7. The Hegemony of the Bureaucratic Model 8. The Pressure from Within PART III: ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES 9. Ownership and Control 10. What Are Voluntary Organisations For? 11. The Fallacies of Managerialism 12. Towards a ’Round Earth’ Map of Volunteering 13. Dissenting Voices: The Case of the National Coalition for Independent Action PART IV: CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 14. The Paradox of Sectorisation 15. Towards An Alternative Paradigm 16. The Implications of Rethinking Voluntary Action
Om författaren
Colin Rochester is Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He has previously co-authored Volunteering and Society in the 21st Century.
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